Title: what do I do when I want to do everything?
Author: Barbara sher (http://www.barbarasher.com/)
The back cover reads:
Are you a scanner?
“I’m fascinated by something new every week!”
“I lose interest in things I thought would interest me forever.”
“I enjoy finding out how to do new things but get bored once I understand them.”
“Having just one career for life sounds so dull- what about all the other jobs I might like?”
If your passions and abilities take you in so many different directions that you find it difficult to set a goal and achieve the life you want, then you may be a scanner. Unlike people who are satisfied with one area of interest, you are genetically wired to pursue many interests and goals.
The title and the words on back cover tempted me to start reading it.
Book starts with prologue of her own story in her college days. It’s divided into two parts, eight chapters in part 1 .Chap 1 introduces the symptoms of scanners. Chap 2…. Put this chapters business aside.
In the book she introduces us to a kind of typology- people can be roughly divided between “scanners” and “divers”. The modern world is set up to favor and pander to the divers. Divers are people who specialize in one discipline and work towards becoming settled within it (at whatever level seems to work out for them). Doctors, lawyers, athletes and similar professionals whose training and career will have included long periods of focusing on just one area are usually divers.
Scanners, on the other hand, find themselves interested in many seemingly unrelated topics, struggled( or were never able) to choose one subject to major in, and are often viewed and treated less favorably by our current society.
The content is very systematically presented, firstly about the symptoms of the scanners, reasons for their behavior like leaving the things half done (from a divers perspective), then few words boosting the scanners morale, quoting few noted scanners n their works and then many exercises and techniques to build the gap between planning and doing, which are also useful for non scanners.
In the second part she classifies the scanners into 10 categories, though no scanner completely falls into particular category and elaborates symptoms and prescribes the apt working methods.
It ends with three types of resumes for a scanner.
SIMPLER TIMES
8 years ago
6 comments:
Looks like a good book.
Especially for people like me, I am sure I am not a diver and am more of a scanner.
Where did you see this book?
then you belong to the class of leonardo davnci, ben franklin ;)
got it at land mark, spencors.
Always knew i was one ;)
Anyway u didnt say if it was useful to u..
apparently, the book divided people into different sects, OK. But did it give any guidance to scanners or say how the scanners should thrive in a diver driven world?
Overall, a good review for your first one. Keep it coming and who knows, you might just need to throw it in your HS class next sem. ;)
looks to be interestingz
@priyatham
coming to its usefulness to me,
i sometimes felt there is something wrong with me when i thought of pursuing unrelated interests; not being able to stick to one idea and felt guilty for dropping things in the middle n my own thoughts seemed very non-feasible coz of the conviction that ppl stick to one profession throughout the life. all i was trying to do was try choosing one interest, career to have and compete with/like everyone around and i am very unsuccessful at choosing. all she says is that i don have to choose and im differently abled. she made more clear and transparent myself to me. in the book i got what im concerned of.
i already mentioned book is full of exercises for scanners for their weaknesses n strengths. the book ll ssurely be a feast for you. pandaga chesuko :P
@bacha: if interested u can take it for sometime from me.
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