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itius, Altius, Fortius.\n\nOn your mark. Get, set, go.\n\nHip Hip Hooray.\n\nThe list of threes in the English language<\/a> is endless. And though they say three\u2019s a crowd, two words sound incomplete while four are a mouthful. With the passage of time, a group of three words made it to describing what you did for a living, at least in the creative world: \u201cWriter. Producer. Animator.\u201d\n\nIn the beginning, the words simply defined the work we did, which was great. Then, the three-word descriptors crept into our hobbies, because those who weren\u2019t doing much wanted in too. So, we saw the rise of the \u201cBanker. Dreamer. Traveller<\/a>.\u201d That was still tolerable, in light of what followed. Soon the three words became vaguely about who we are. \u201cDreamer. Believer. Thinker.\u201d Or something of the sort. WTF?!\n\nIn no time, it has become fashionable to put everything in three succinct words: Swipe through Tinder<\/a> and you\u2019ll see many a \u201cDreamer. Believer. Doer.\u201d There is obviously the \u201cActor. Writer. Drinker.\u201d Some choose to be a bit more abstract and used three nouns to describe themselves: \u201cDreams. Philosophies. Rum.\u201d For this lot, I have not three but four words: \u201cGenuinely meaningless. No substance.\u201d\n\nRarely will you see a plumber say, \u201cPlumber. Dreamer. Doer.\u201d He knows what he does; you know what he does. Expectation and reality match. There is no ambiguity in what\u2019s being offered. But the premium today is on versatility. You\u2019re nobody if you do just one thing. One of my students recently told me, \u201cA watch is so useless; it has only one function.\u201d (My argument that it also shows the date was futile.) It doesn\u2019t cut it if it does one thing.\n\nIn times when even your phone<\/a> doubles up as your camera, your assistant<\/a>, a map, a pastime, a distraction, a recorder, an addiction<\/a>, and whatnot, can people get away by doing just one job? You have a day job, you teach in colleges, you know how to grow your herbs, you cook<\/a> in the afternoons, you have pop-ups on weekends, you slip into a stand-up by early evening, you can tell 14 types of wine by late evening, you dehumidify cigars much later that same evening, you have a podcast by night, you race cars by midnight, and perhaps on really busy days, have a blog going deep into the night too. Multi-tasking is the only thing worth pursuing. You can\u2019t be a single-function watch anymore.\n\n

When did we stop having heroes who were singular in their pursuit. When did we start looking up to the jack of alls and master of nones? And why? <\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nWhile it is great that for the first time in human history it is possible to have 11 careers going on simultaneously, what happened to the idea of subject-matter experts? People who do one thing and do it really well? There is no way someone who does 10 things does all of them just as well as someone who does one thing. Unless you change the definition of doing something well. And that\u2019s what we\u2019ve done.\n\nWe\u2019re living in premium mediocre<\/a> times \u2013 a stunning term coined by Venkatesh Rao. Mediocre with\u00a0just\u00a0an irrelevant touch of premium, not enough to ruin the delicious, essential mediocrity. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re really in it for. We\u2019re so happy with things being just about OK, that we do not ask for more. And it\u2019s not just in India, it\u2019s a global phenomenon, before you say they are sticklers for quality. Premium mediocre is a nice adaptable idea, it\u2019s impossible to resist.\n\nIf premium mediocrity is the produce, versatility is the farm, and multitasking the fertiliser for it. Today you don\u2019t need to be a master of anything to get ahead. Almost no stand-up comic is worth the price they demand, but they still get it. Almost no restaurant<\/a> actually serves good food \u2013 they are all hovering around the average and above-average mark \u2013 as long as it looks good on Instagram<\/a>. If it works, then why bother getting any better at it?\n\nI miss those times and those people who did just one thing and did it well. Is Zakir Hussain also a chef? Did Usain Bolt also do salsa? Does Bill Gates also do stand-up? Is Jerry Seinfeld<\/a> also a teacher? What happened to putting endless hours into one vocation, mastering it, and then actually being humble about it, saying you know very little about it? Where is the undying yearning to do one thing and do it as well as you can, as well as nobody else can? Isn\u2019t that the only way to pursue greatness?\n\nWhen did we stop having heroes who were singular in their pursuit. When did we start looking up to the jack of alls and master of nones? And why? Because it is an escape from the human anthill, perhaps. Life isn\u2019t a rat race anymore, it\u2019s an anthill. It\u2019s still about getting to the top of it.\n\nI think the reason we exist in this multiverse, is because multitaskers give us hope. Never before have there been so many youngsters out there who also have their YouTube channels because they might become the next Biswa or the next big fashion blogger. Having your own channel is today\u2019s equivalent of auditioning for MTV Roadies<\/i> \u2013 a ticket to success.\n\nWe\u2019ve taken the whole \u201cput your eggs in different baskets\u201d advice too far. We are too afraid to do only one thing because if that one thing doesn\u2019t work out in the end, all that effort goes down the drain. What\u2019s more important is YOLO. How can you spend an entire life doing just one thing and run the risk of eventually being proved that you weren\u2019t very good at it. How shameful would that be?\n\nCitius, Altius, Fortius man.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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