Nobody's perfect - haven't you heard this mantra enough in your life? Every time some mistake is made anywhere, what's the excuse readily offered? Nobody's perfect. While the provocation is always different, the response is always the same: Nobody's perfect therefore you're not perfect and, worst of all, I'm not perfect.
Well, I'm sick of it.
So I decided to try something different: I'm not going to accept my limitations as gospel truth.
Instead of resigning myself to being a specialist in a few subjects in the millions contained in human knowledge, I'm going to expand myself into as many as possible. Instead of relishing the few similar experiences I go through everyday, I'm going to throw myself into unknown situations left and right. Instead of - well, being just me - I'm going to try to become a modern Renaissance Man, able to converse in and adapt to even the most extreme situations with the utmost ease.
Why? To see if it's possible. How? Fuzzy on those details. By When? Dunno.
All I know for sure is that I have to set some grounds rules for myself in this little experiment, but I'm not even sure that I know how to write those. So, I figure we'll write (and right) 'em as we go. But, if you start out with nothing, you'll get nothing. That being said, I did decide upon initial one ground rule:
1. Be Curious: Ask, take invitations, etc. To expand, you've gotta put yourself in areas way outside your expertise (and indulge at least a little in some areas of expertise). So that's rule number one.
So here's the deal: take this journey with me. Give me ideas, keep me accountable and most of all, adopt this journey as your own. Learning never stops, bettering yourself is never unacceptable. Your only limit is the farthest flung things your mind can think of.
Let's get started.
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