There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only.
For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work.
Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.
Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more than one profession - there's something suspicious about it! But nowadays it's more accepted that one can do a lot of things.
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.