Every year, my kids’ school puts on a talent show, and there is nothing more perfect on this planet than a bunch of tiny people getting up and showing off their skills. Kids dress like chickens and make math PowerPoints. It’s a whole thing. This was an actual conversation on the way home from school this week:
"but I was never intellectually monogamous. I always wanted to dabble. I wanted to read philosophy and fiction and anthropology." This is such an apt description of my life in academia...and my life in general. Barbara Sher wrote a good book ("Refuse to Choose!") about scanners (the foxes) that helped me think of myself as less like a magpie with all the shiny objects, although I love a shiny object, and more like someone who's inherently curious about all the things. Thanks for the thoughtful post.
"but I was never intellectually monogamous. I always wanted to dabble. I wanted to read philosophy and fiction and anthropology." This is such an apt description of my life in academia...and my life in general. Barbara Sher wrote a good book ("Refuse to Choose!") about scanners (the foxes) that helped me think of myself as less like a magpie with all the shiny objects, although I love a shiny object, and more like someone who's inherently curious about all the things. Thanks for the thoughtful post.
What a great article!
I think I’m definitely more of a hedgehog than a fox. I will think about expanding my universe.🙂