I am both. I am getting better at finishing too.
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I said "jackass of all trades" π
Jack of all trades; master of none.
Oftentimes better than a master of one.
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Cross disciplinary skills are necessary for invention.
I like to think of ADHD as a beneficial mutagen in our technological and artistic evolution.
Absolutely. I have found that going hard into my non-tech hobbies is really good for me. Subjects that I veered away from in school (e.g., chemistry) can become big hyper-focus-worthy aspects of my hobbies (e.g., the nitrogen cycle and all the organic chemistry that goes into oxidation of the organics in my koi pond).
And some other interests of mine, like having a part time photography business for the past decade, allow me to learn more STEM shit (optics) as well as have an artistic and creative outlet. And even today that has morphed into video editing as an activity with my son.
It's even true when I limit the context to my career. I am a software engineer and have loved programming since the "manually number every line" days of BASIC on Apple II school computers in the '90s. But my education and career have run the gamut from semiconductor design and physics (and the quantum quantum quantum!) to computer engineering and logic/assembly, to general electronics, to manufacturing & testing & quality assurance of electronics, to straight-up business administration, to UNIX/Linux, and now to writing software for embedded Linux systems that use in-house electronics.
At work the cross disciplinary skills help not just for being on a cross-functional design team, but for figuring out a complicated system that was half completed several years ago by people who no longer work there.
They say that variety is the spice of life, but it's even better if you are neurospicy yourself.
As a professional evolutionary psychologist (and definitely not someone who just read this on the internet somewhere and can't find a source), ADHD was probably beneficial tens to hundreds of thousands of years ago. The mf who got bored of living in a village for 20 years and decided to walk hundreds of miles until they found a really cool hill is the mf founding new villages and moving into Europe, and Asia, and the Americas, and Australia
"A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one."
I like being a generalist. But yes also ADHD.
I bet when you are up against a deadline you come up with some pretty impressive stuff though... I do my best work with the consequences gun to my head
!! You completed the quote. It is seldom completed, and then it sounds like a bad thing (a jack of all trades is a master of none). But you. You did right by us all lol
So much this
I really like being a generalist, it's really helpful for not just me but for helping others as well
Iβm more of a Swiss Army knife. I can do a lot but Iβm not that great at any of it.
I also have some extremely useless skills, like the corckscrew.
Always felt the corkscrew was one of the more useful ones. Did you never forget bringing a proper corkscrew to a picnic?
No, but honetly it probably has more to do with me mostly drinking from bottles with caps or from cans.
No that's absolutely not useless. You're hanging with friends partying and realize there's no bottle opener for wine. Then you pull this bad bitch out of your pocket and save the day
This happened to me once, except that no-one had swiss army knife in their pocket. I'm carrying now one
The same way, you'll never know when knowing what happened in Paris 1764 will save your day
So it happened once, but without the knife. Now that you have the knife, has it ever come up again?
I opened a bottle with a swiss army knife corkscrew once to see if it was a difficult as it appeared and it was an adventure. Maybe with some practice it would be easisr, but it shredded the cork because the tiny handle was hard to keep straight and the pulling action was hard to keep straight. Had to use one of the screws that sits on the lip to keep itself straight to get the rest of the cork out.
This is hard to read as a Frenchman. Opening a wine bottle is a basic life skill you learn as a child there, and a Swiss army knife corkscrew is a fine tool to get that job done easily. I can also get the job done with just a shoe (like a sneaker) if needed (except I've stopped drinking). I get it, it's our speciality, but still it's strange to read about not being able to get it done with a Swiss army knife, no diss intended!
You are supposed to use your hand as leverage to lever it up the first quarter inch or so, like a traditional wine key. Then pull from there.
Back in the bad old punk rock days, when we had wine on sale from Aldi, we'd jam the cork into the bottle with a screwdriver and catch most of the spray in the mouth. It was an art. Then drink directly from bottle as usual.
I'm great at some stuff, but it's useless stuff. I'm awful at talking, so even when I'm good at something, I look stupid when I try to explain it
I'm decent at typing though, because I can go back and edit stuff. If you ask me in person how an equatorial telescope mount works, I will have no idea how to begin. But here on the internet, I can just say
An altitude/azimuth mount (like the dobsonian collecting dust in your neighbor's basement), rotates on axes local to you. To track a target with an alt/az mount, you have to continuously rotate the telescope left or right (that's the azimuth), and up or down (that's the altitude).
An equatorial mount rotates around the same axis as the Earth itself, which means that throughout the night as the stars move across the sky, you only have to rotate the telescope in one direction to track a target. It effectively cancels out the Earth's rotation, keeping the sky stationary (relative to the scope).
If I want to go a little deeper, I can try to explain right ascension and declination, but that's a whole nother paragraph
Recently bought a bunch of courses on music theory...why? Cause I bought cubase and figured I needed to understand how to make things sound good together. Plus I've always loved music and it seemed like a mystery in my knowledge. Now spent more time learning music theory than in the program. It's a fun process. Just hope the fun doesn't run out...though been awhile in the making so to say, so maybe 'this' one will stay. heh.
Di Vinci also spent numerous years studying arcana and ''accomplishing'' nothing, he died with the Mona Lisa and John The Baptist paintings at the foot of his bed. From analysis we knew he spend decades painting them, there's no element of them that appears to me unintended, and he accomplished an optical illusion only understood very recently, in painting in tone alone shows her smiling, the color shows her flat faced. He captured a sense of a smile that's only about to happen, because he managed to understand that grey scale and color are processed differently in the mind. He figured out so many strange little things that he incorporates into his work, but he also started 100s of projects he lost interest in, and it's not clear if he even considered his finished work complete, it's arguable according to people far more educated than me.
As someone who is prone to narcissism please stop glorifying add superpowers lol, I knew I am a genius already
Why not both?
People look at me cross when I say I went from cook to IT.
You don't know what you hate until you try it.
Also talking to people about bands they like. Not liking the band, but knowing more useless facts about people in it than the music itself lol
The instructor I have teaching at this exact moment was a red seal chef, heβs now a red seal welder, teaching first year apprentices metalwork. Sometimes you just need a change.
That's probably true, but I don't like self-diagnoses, and I don't even know where to begin to get a professional diagnosis
So until then, I'm a jack of all trades with some cocktail of undiagnosed aneurotypicalities
Yeah but I am also professionally successful so this meme can eat my ass.
The marine service industry has a higher than average amount of neurodivergent folk in it. I figure itβs because every day is different and you absolutely have to be able to be creative in your thinking, boats are weird like that.
Why Christian Bale? It should be a guy who tried to trim his beard but gave up. Also, I'm a bit of a barber.
This also confused me. Also though, a lot of memes confuse me, specifically the ones that say "me when..." Because the person's expression often is kind of mixed and unclear to me. Afaik I'm not autistic.
I think that's how people picture themselves
I've tried many paths in my life. Today at age 41 I know least where I want to go, rather than having any clearer idea of where my life is headed.
There's also the distinct possibility that we'll be mostly dead in a decade due to climate change, famine, pandemic or war, in which case our preferences, hopes and dreams don't matter in the slightest.
Jack of all trades master of... what's that in my pocket? Oh yeah that's from that project, maybe I could do this other thing entirely different now that I have this. Anyway what was I saying, sorry I didn't pay attention to myself speaking.