Inc.com: In business, single-mindedness is sexy. We revere the expert for her in-depth knowledge and celebrate those with monomaniacal focus for their passion. In contrast, dabbling in a little bit of this and that can seem, well, a touch flaky. Can't you make up your mind? Or maybe it's just you're not good enough at any one thing to make a decent living at it?
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I think this article says a lot about our generation and how we are a group of people who strive to do everything that we can in the short amount of time that we are given. The millennial generation has been made to feel that being good at only one thing is no longer adequate. I think one of the best examples of this is how colleges make high school students feel like they need to be super humans in order to gain acceptance into their institution. At the same time we now live in a world where it has immense value to be involved and learned in many subjects. Having this "slash"mentality also decreases the likelihood of being jobless because there is always something to fall back on. This notion of being a multifaceted person is something that is acceptable because of the time in which we live. Pretty soon, one slash will not be enough.
The great "Slash" of theatre is not something unknown to me. It's quite a useful technique when you don't have enough money for labor or labor itself. Having a variety of skills that you are a "master" in is a goo idea. Even if every job you work on doesn't have you use all your skills, there is a greater likelihood that you will have more opportunities (either from using different skills on different projects, or from being a person who can perform multiple tasks on a job). Sure, it would be ideal for every job to be filled by different people so that more opportunities could arise, but realistically, the "slash" is not a bad compromise.
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