"Human scanners": how to find your purpose for someone who loves to try new things

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Imagine a person who constantly changes spheres of interest: first he got carried away with acting, then he suddenly became interested in studying languages, then archeology, real estate and, in general, how they play these bongos ?! If this person reminds you of himself, congratulations: you are a typical scanner. What is it and how to live with it - says Barbara Sher, one of the main motivational speakers in the world.

What's going on?

So, you are a born "scanner" - a person who enjoys the diversity around us. Often, human scanners feel that time is passing by, and they have not achieved anything yet. Didn't become a professional in anything. It seems that already five minutes before an expert in one area, and then another begins to interest. Peers who have fewer talents and opportunities have moved far ahead, and the "scanner" is still at the start.

If so, you simply do not yet realize that being a “scanner” is a worthy calling. This is talent and the key to a good life.

Scanners want to try everything. They are equally enthusiastic about flower structure and music theory. They love to travel and are interested in politics. For "scanners" the Universe is a treasure house, where millions of works of art are stored, and it is unlikely that there will be enough life to see them all.

Because our culture values specialization and determination, we all too often think that "scanners" are people who just don't want to work properly and are scattered about the little things. This stereotype.

Get everything at once

Often the only problem for scanners is finding a job where their specific talent can be used. Guidance tests are usually of no use to scanners. It takes time and ingenuity to find a niche for them - a job that will accommodate all of their many interests. But the results are worth it.

Scanners can be poets, documentaries, travelers, great salespeople, good managers and teachers. And even combine several of these roles at the same time.

Get everything sequentially

Scanners are often distracted, in part because they are in a terrible rush. But there is nowhere to rush, because:

• there is more time than it seems;
• haste is unproductive;
• The "fever of time" spoils life. This is a kind of hysteria, because of which everyone believes that every minute you need to do something important for the future. Don't give in to her. There is time. And it will definitely be enough to understand yourself and find your vocation (or several vocations at the same time).

There is much more time than you imagine. You will get everything if you are calm and consistent.

A few exercises for typical "scanners"

1. Ten lives

If you had 10 lives, how would you manage them? Take a pencil, a piece of paper and write down what you would do in each of these lives. If you have more than 10 professions in your head, then please! Don't limit yourself to anything. Now let's take a look at this list. He might look like this: poet, musician, successful entrepreneur, Chinese scholar, gourmet restaurant chef, traveler, gardener, husband and father, journalist, talk show host.

Fine! It is not necessary to choose one profession. You will soon find a way to live each of these lives.

2. Available time

Quickly answer the following questions about each of your lives. Don't hesitate too long. Write down the first thing that comes to mind. (You can use the same life multiple times.)

What kind of life would you give 2016? What kind of life will you live the second? What can you do 20 (or less) minutes every day? What about on weekends? What can you do from time to time?

By answering these questions, you will get a more realistic idea of how people do different things if they are “Renaissance people” like you. Maybe you stop thinking in terms of "either - or": "How can I give up everything and devote myself to poetry, and learn Chinese, and play the violin, so that there is still time for business and travel? Yes, and also learn how to cook gourmet cuisine and take up gardening?"

Here's how: don't devote yourself to poetry. Just write poetry.

Write one line before bed, and suddenly you suddenly wake up very early with the desire to write more. If the poem grabs you, put the rest aside. And in a few days you will finish it. And then you may not want to write poetry for another month. When will you take violin lessons? How about next summer?

The point is that you can do everything if you make the right schedule.

If you want to start a business, but also see the world, you can combine it or implement it consistently: now business, then travel.

3. Make a fast-moving three-year plan

It seems to many "scanners" that there is very little time and if you do not do something right now, then there will simply not be time in the future. Relax: there is enough time for all your many "lives". You have more time than you think.

In order to calm down, you need to make a fast-moving plan for three years. Once you understand that you can conquer new lives step by step, you will calm down.

4. Draw a map of your life

Look back at your past. Probably, the map of your life may look like this: in 2008 you took up mountaineering, in 2009 you were carried away by antiques, in 2010 you started playing the violin, in 2011 you got a job on the radio, and so on. For a year you went to the cinema all the time, and then for two years you did not go at all? You know, perhaps this is the most correct way to live. You need to learn to respect the wisdom of your natural instincts, because they allow you to perfectly fit into life everything that you need.

And finally advice

If you realize that you are still a "scanner", do nothing to change yourself. Do not think that you have to break yourself up for the needs of this world. Better think about how to arrange life to fit your many talents into it.

Based on the book ""