Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams

by Barbara Sher

Scanners who weren’t looking for careers had just as many problems because they had too many choices.

How will you ever focus your curious mind on one path when you can’t bear to turn your back on anything? What makes you tick?

If Scanners didn’t think they should limit themselves to one field, 90 percent of their problems would cease to exist!

To Scanners the world is like a big candy store full of fascinating opportunities, and all they want is to reach out and stuff their pockets.

Intense curiosity about numerous unrelated subjects is one of the most basic characteristics of a Scanner. Scanners are endlessly inquisitive.

Little by little, the process of writing your ideas in your Daybook will change the way you feel about not following up on every one of your good ideas, because it becomes so clear that planning, designing, and making a record of your ideas in something called a Scanner Daybook isn’t making a promise; it’s the way inventive people enjoy themselves.

Remember: It doesn’t matter if you never do what you’re describing on these pages, because finishing a project is not the issue here. This is about your vision and the free play of ideas for pure enjoyment.

their curiosity and fascination for what is new, their willingness to explore unfamiliar worlds, their exceptional ability to learn new concepts, their enthusiasm for experience—in other words, their love of being fully alive.

Scanners even try to keep their talents hidden away