The theory of the viniverse

Disclaimer: Some neurons may have been harmed during the writing of this post. Some may be during its reading as well! Proceed with care.

Enter the theory of the Viniverse! There is a possibility of the existence of a multiverse. Adding a bit of imagination and sci-fi to that, we can even say there are multiple versions of ourselves with infinite realities and possibilities (thanks Rick and Morty). Assuming we are a one shot specialist in each of those, you put all together and BAM, Viniverse theory right there. You just got a super uber version of yourself capable of anything. The beauty of this is that it is already a reality.

Say hello to the poster boy of the Viniverse theory, Leonardo himself! THE Renaissance man. The first thing you will notice when looking him up is how he is defined as polymath. This beautiful word is almost synonym to Renaissance man, probably also where such a way of being had it's biggest surge. Lets go back to our poster boy, when you think on such a being as Leonardo da Vinci and his work, ask yourself: was he a painter? Or a sculptor? Or a writer? Or an inventor? A scientist? An engineer? The answer is yes! With a very superficial search we can find out that he was such an active thinker, with amazing creativity which could not express only in one form or discipline. And he was not the only case in history, both past, present and most definitely future. Names such as Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, or in more current times, Bill Gates, join our dearest Leonardo in this list. Of course these are all exceptional cases, la crème de la crème. But they are all clear examples that humans not only have the ability to have multiple interests, in the most diversified areas, as they are able to be successful, in all of them even.

By looking only at the names listed above, of course it seems that only exceptional people are able to do it. However we common earthlings are also able to display varied interests and abilities. Think of you, a normal adult person. You have a job (or currently in between jobs) and you have a hobby (at least one) which is most likely unrelated to your job. And that's already two different abilities. And if you look at it, very likely there are people being paid by doing your hobby! So yeah, it is a skill you are displaying right there. Adding to the fact that being an adult you may have to cook for yourself, et voilà you are a chef now. Maybe you have kids as well, and there comes a whole train of skills: babysitter, educator, teacher, mentor, policeman, judge, executioner?... with this very shortened list you can probably tell I have no kids. Let's not rush things and step back a little, maybe you have pets, or maybe both kids and pets. Well, suddenly you are entering the realms of zoology, animal caretaker and educator to name a few. If we add our online presence, there is another infinity of abilities we display, from podcasters, actors, writers, teachers, philosophers, game developers, gamers, ... The internet lets us display our inner da Vincis in a whole other level. And there are many people out there creating the most amazing and varied things. Some become more famous than others, but that comes with the amount of time and effort put into that. Which bring us to the main factor that may restrict us from being polymath beasts: time to spend in the effort.

Time, that one precious dimension that we can't really save on, yet! The term "saving time" can be quite paradoxical as we are always spending time, it does not stop for us, as we didn't figure it out yet anyway. However, we usually plan on where we are going to spend our time, it can be a weekly or even last second plan, in the end we always decide what we are about to do next. Some people spend more time points in perfecting that one skill, their calling. Others distribute their time points across many different fields. In the end it is reasonable to accept that we will have specialists in that one particular field or jacks of all trades that seem to be amazing at everything.

So what leads to this? I would dare say one major point, as in many issues that torment us, is our childhood. Events in our childhoods will "design" the shape of our personalities and ultimately our interests as well and how much we are willing to spend on them. It is since childhood, across many societies, that we start to have boundaries set in our destinies, and have defined that we will find our calling, that we are set to be someone in the near future who will be the Master of its field. We are limited on access to all fields, it is almost a Marketing strategy where we are having our options cut short. Thus our education is almost written in stone, with the same program being taught over and over again to every single child, for quite some generations, leading up to very frustrated and confused teenagers, either by totally hating school/learning or by suddenly being placed in a Mortal Kombat towers situation "choose your destiny". Confusing, right? What would happen if education systems everywhere were redesigned is an interesting idea to have, difficult to answer too.

All this, slightly random, rant serves to express the way my brain is (un)organized and what might be (un)expected in here. A safe place for the most various thoughts, a mix of opinions and facts, which I will try to always clearly identify and correctly source, as in this current time and age, mixing both concepts seems to be quite the plague.
The theory of the Viniverse will be applied at its fullest, this is, a person can be both a good and knowledgeable professional, in the current job, and a good and knowledgeable person in any other interests that person may have. If not knowledgeable yet, all that it takes is having the interest in the first place. Knowledge is acquired by spending time and effort in that after all, but we all start at level 1. We are all polymaths, let's celebrate it.