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The Da Vinci Curse
Why people ‘suffering’ from that are especially creative, versatile, and just damn exceptional.
A couple of months ago I came over a book called “The Da Vinci Curse: Life Design for People with Too Many Interests and Talents”
For me, this book was a gamechanger of who and what I am. Recalling talking to my aunt Birgitta a couple of years ago, and she asked me what I was working with and I told her ‘I’m working as a librarian now’, and she replied as it was the most natural thing that “Well Anders, you have so many talents”. And it’s true, listing all my knowledge and field of work is a very long list [See the footnotes]
So me recognizing myself in the book is no wonder because that’s me in a nutshell. People like me are often referred to as Renaissance men/women, dilettantes, Jack of all trades, and so on. In many ways a demeaning way of describing us, and for me, it’s been a curse but also my pride of being ‘me’! I have all my life taken pride in always learning new things, and improving my knowledge. Not stopping when I know what I need for a task, a job, or employment.
The first problem is us humans we want all people to be neatly tucked into a box. We “Da Vinci Cursed” doesn’t fit into a box, we’re maybe fitting in a couple of boxes, but we would probably overflow…
