MAYBE YOU’RE DOING IT WITHOUT ME KNOWING Curt.. It’s all very well what Grandin

MAYBE YOU’RE DOING IT WITHOUT ME KNOWING Curt..

It’s all very well what Grandin adumbrates but what about people who are visual/spacial, pattern recognizers, AND verbal?

If someone asks me what I do I usually say I’m a ‘specialist’ because I find something (or two or three things)…build joy for it through specialisation, then do it for many hours a day and make it my life until the improvements diminish. And then onto the next thing. After doing that for a decade or two things kind of flow together and learning new things becomes so easy and quick. Or so it seems in relative terms.

Someone once asked

— “What do you specialize in?” —

And I said

— ‘Everything.’ —

They were obviously baffled (although in retrospect, of course, ‘everything’ is technically inaccurate).

For me these range from artistic (architecture/design) to coordination (combat/sport) to visual/spacial (mapping/[games such as] Go) to verbal (learning the dictionary definition of thousands of words/imitating people’s voices) to pattern recognition (pure maths/coding/chess) to a combination of them in different forms (poker/business/connecting people/project managing/conferences).

For me, to do any one of these without the others would be holding back expansive nourishment from a ravenous mind – a form of torture.

Then you get the people with 2 of the three like you (and my best friend from school Sir Edward Townes) – visual/spacial and pattern recognizing. If you are a 10/10 in the abstraction pattern field and 9.5/10 in the visual/spacial the Ed is t’other way around. He can visualize things beyond anyone I have encountered – I am training every day but WAY behind.

So I suppose my question really is do you not feel like you’re starving your verbal mind by not spending years becoming a writer like Joseph Conrad (who was also ‘autistic’ in the visual/spacial [he was a captain of a ship] and verbal) or H.L.Mencken? And a speaker? You come across well in interviews but I think more practice and a few years could make you a 3/3 trifecta polymath.

Am I wrong?