I was wandering through a discount bookstore this last weekend with my husband, an activity we both love but don't do often due to the financial ramifications - I LOVE BOOKS- and I came across a catchy title: "Refuse To Choose, Use All of Your Interests, Passions and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams". I thought, "O.K., I'll bite. It's only five bucks". I got it home and started reading it and, Wow, it is one of those books that for me is life changing.
In addition to moving a lot, I have had more careers than anyone I know. I have had and continue to have more interests and hobbies than any 5 people I know. I have been a doctor, a yoga instructor, a marine biologist, a florist, a massage therapist, a life coach, an entrepreneur, a scuba divemaster, a model, a chemistry lab tech, a carhop and a car mechanic. And this is the short list of interests I've actually been paid to do. I won't even go into all my hobbies. So to see a book that promises a way to make heads or tails of all these interests and a way to condense them all into a singular career? Hell ya, I'll look.
It did not disappoint. I blew through it in 2 days hungrily absorbing the information and happily doing the insightful exercises. Now the work begins. The author, Barbara Sher, introduced a new way of thinking and acting. A new label, Scanner, for an old style of being, The Renaissance Person. A way that has greater promise for a multi-interest, multi-talented brain like mine than the usual Specialist mentality we are taught in our current society. Ms. Sher introduced me to a new way of being but it is up to me to integrate it into my life let go of my past baggage and make it work for me.
There are a number of different types of Scanners and the author lists them out along with their common attributes, lifestyle types, tools for success in life and career options. Guess what careers she suggested for my type? Writer and motivational speaker. Sweet! I'm already on my way.
Book info: Refuse to Choose! by Barbara Sher
About Me
- Perpetual_Tourist
- Southern California, United States
- I am a thirty-something happily married, happily child-free female. I have moved, by choice, over 25 times to 7 different states. My husband and I never stay long in one city always itching to explore what's over the horizon. In our most recent move I realized I am fulfilling my dream of traveling the world, being a perpetual tourist. I'm just doing it in a more thorough manner, staying years instead of weeks. This allows me to form a pretty in depth opinion about the city and state we live in. We're always on the move and we like it.
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