It can be hard to focus on one discipline when so many appeal to us. It’s like an artist trying to specialize in two or three mediums of art and realizing that there isn’t enough time to become an expert in all of them. Each one requires time and dedication, mastery and practice. It’s not enough to try it for a month or two or take on a project on the weekend. It takes years of continuous work to really develop the skills for it, to understand the principles, to become good at it.
When we limit ourselves to one discipline, however, it can be monotonous after awhile. We need variation, new challenges and ideas to explore. Each discipline and field offers that, but the hard part is in selecting which one to focus on, which one to put most (or all) of our time in. We don’t want to be in a position where we look back ten or twenty years later and wonder why we didn’t try something else, why we didn’t pursue plan B instead. Besides, our choices are limited by time, and whatever we choose will set us on a path that is marked by twists and turns and unexpected surprises.
Fallton Havenstonne 