On focus

What is currently fixed in today's world, and in the past, is scarcity. That includes monetary resources, energy sources, and most importantly, time resources.

In contrast, we want a world of abundance, harnessing unlimited energy, and immortality — which is the lifelong wish of many, from royalties of the past, to alchemists, to scientists, and to entrepreneurs. Those would remove scarcity, from food production, to energy usage, to unlimited lifespan. Everyone of those dreams is really an attempt to erase a form of scarcity.

Anyhow, since we are in a world of scarcity and there are so many possibilities of what one person can possibly do — the options and opportunities are enormous — we need to focus and be diligent. Look at the fields of subjects, from the sciences, to the arts, to technology, to business, languages, and more. There's just a lot to learn and tackle for just one person.

And each of the paths has its own gestation period that can't be sped up, no matter the level of efficiency. It always takes, at the very least, a minimum time and effort.

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Here we think about what we want to focus on in our life, for life is relatively short. And we already have ideas about that. This includes Ikigai, our unique special interests that we are obsessed in, things that move us and make us emotional (in a healthy way), and the unique view each person has and the different priorities each has. Even people in the same fields are not identical to each other.

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If we have a wide variety of interests that are multidisciplinary, what about the focus?

Before some fields of study were made, they were generalized fields, especially if we look at the history of science. What we now call physics, chemistry, and biology sat together under natural philosophy for most of history. Aristotle wrote on logic, biology, ethics, and physics as one continuous body of work. Ibn Sina moved between medicine and philosophy without treating them as separate disciplines. Newton spent as much of his life on theology and alchemy as on the physics we remember him for. The boundaries came later, often drawn by other people.

And our variety of interests will result in an amalgamation of what is unique to us, that may become some sort of our own pseudo-field — a combination of a variety of interests that somehow converged.

As a reminder for us, one definition of creativity is the combination of what exists to create something unique, new, an improvement, or simply looking at an angle no one has thought of.