The curse of being a multipotentialite

Hey Climbers, today -

• You might be a multipotentialite, and how to get unstuck

• How the Mexican cartel is recruiting kids through video games, and how a telecom company is trying to stop it.

CREATIVE TIP OF THE WEEK
The curse of being a multipotentialite

Are you constantly torn between interests, careers, and hobbies?

Does the question “so, what do you do?” give you heart palpitations?

Or maybe you feel like a freak, because while your friends seem content to be a lawyer, teacher, or in HR for the rest of their lives, you’d rather shit in your hand and clap?

If this sounds like you, you might be a multipotentialite. In which case, welcome to the club.

For the longest time, I felt like a weirdo because I couldn’t just stick to one thing. I was so frustrated. I wanted to be a musician, content creator, writer, screenwriter, podcaster, actor… and that’d just be on Monday.

I’d try half-heartedly to do them all, never really committing seriously to any one of them (not for lack of trying).

It left me feeling overwhelmed, scattered, ineffective and stuck.

Like I was failing at everything.

Why couldn’t I just pick one, and focus on it? What the hell was wrong with me?

The paralysis of choice

Multipotentialites have a wide range of skills and interests.

Which is great, because we could potentially do so many things!

But it’s also terrible, because we could potentially do so many things.

We see all the lives we could live stretching out before us.

But knowing that we have options can lead to a fear of choosing.

Because what if we choose the wrong thing?

This fear can be paralysing.

Sometimes, it can feel safer not to pick one. Because if we don’t choose, we can’t fail.

So we let months go by without doing what our creative souls call for. Spending years, stuck, ‘wasting our potential’.

It’s a terrible feeling. But there is a way out of this stuckness.

“If you have more than three priorities, you have none.” - Jim Collins

It was a hard lesson to learn, but one day, it hit me.

You can do it all, just not all at once.

If I ever wanted to seriously succeed at anything, I was going to have to choose (for now) and take very messy, very imperfect action forward, towards definite failure.

But how to know which thing to choose?

The Priority Matrix

I worked with a mentor once who showed me the priority matrix, and it really helped me get unstuck.

Grab a pen and paper. First, write down your why.

(If you’re not sure what your why is, this is what I help creators with in Cringe Mountain Academy)

Then, draw an x and y axis. Like this:

Make a list of alllllllll the things you want to do.

Now, look at each thing and ask yourself:

1. Do I find this easy, or hard?

2. Is this in alignment with my why?

Place each thing in one of the four quadrants.

Choose one quick win, and one major project. Yes, just one from each.

And - this part is crucial - take one tiny action toward each of them right now.

Then another tiny action tomorrow, and another the next day.

Ignore the voice in your head that says you’re on the wrong path, because you don’t know that til you’ve given it a proper go.

You can always pivot in the future. You’ve got this.

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From stuck creative to confident creator in Cringe Mountain Academy

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CREATIVE INSPO OF THE WEEK
Bringing awareness to shady cartels with this creative campaign

A growing problem in Mexico is drug cartels using online video games to lure kids into meeting in the outside world, and forcefully recruiting them.

It’s a serious problem, and it’s one that telecommunications company Movistar is bringing awareness to in this very creative 7 minute film, “This Is Not A Game”.

It’s shot in the real world, but all the characters move like they’re in a video game. It tells an important story, in a cool way. Check it out!!

Ok that’s all for now,

Til next time,

Keep Climbin’

Erica x