A couple of years ago, I came across the word multipotentialite (in this talk). This concept has many different words: multipassionate, polymath, renaissance woman/man… Its description instantly made me feel seen. I always started new projects and new hobbies, and with a lot of them I had an initial feeling that I had found my one passion, I put a lot of effort into them, and eventually found a new passion, and repeated the cycle. Discovering this concept showed me that that’s not how it works for everyone: not everyone is meant to find their one thing and focus all their attention on that forever.
Since then, I’ve learned to appreciate all my interests, and to make them work for me, not against me. I definitely have a preference for web design, or at least it’s the passion I’ve developed the most, and never got tired of. But I can't see myself doing only web design forever. I have other mediums and crafts that I wouldn’t want to abandon. Designing for print, painting, drawing, writing, designing my interiors… Not to mention other non-creative interests I like to explore sometimes.
In a way, I think about web design as an opportunity to combine more than one passion. A website is the final form, but the creativity can come from different places. I also get to explore different fields and worlds through my clients.
Web design is a tangible way I’ve found through which my creativity can help other people. And that creativity is fueled by all other things I’m interested about.
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I actually made a zine some years ago about this topic. It's called Master of Some.
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