A PEP Talk for Creatives: When the world doesn’t Get you

Not long ago, people who had many passions and interests and who chased them all were considered flaky.

I like the term, multi-passionate

Novelist Violeta Nedkova describes it as such:

A multipassionate person is someone who has many interests and passions throughout their life. Your philosophy is, Everything is interesting.

While it is frustrating to know that society, generally, does not take our frequent flights of fancy, and ergo, us as seriously as those who have one steady gig and are known for one thing, we can take solace in knowing that we are special people and people in history and in fact, anyone who has done anything remarkable, amazing or noteworthy in time has been known for more than one thing.

Galileo Galilei was an astronomer, physicist and engineer.

George Washington Carver was a botanist, agronomist, chemist and inventor

Maya Angelou was an author, actress, screenwriter, dancer, poet and civil rights activist

Eleanor Roosevelt was a journalist, radio show host, community advocate

In modern times, Rihanna owns a make up line, acts in movies, sings, designs clothes and models.