5 Signs You’re a Multi-Passionate + Why That’s Your Superpower

So, they call you a jack of all trades, or call you unfocused. Maybe they encourage you to just do one thing in life. If you’ve had any of the above said to you, chances are, you’re a multi-passionate person.

A multi-passionate person is someone who has many different interests and curiosities. They thrive when pursing multiple projects and sometimes even careers.

Not convinced yet? Here’s some signs you might really be a multi-passionate person. (You can watch my video embedded at the bottom if you prefer video.)

1. You become obsessed with a new hobby and then move on.

You spot something in the wild or on social media and immediately want to do it. Let’s say it’s wood working. You start doing a ton of research and eat, breathe and sleep woodworking. You start taking a class, you love it and you go through the motions of the beginner stage.

You become pretty good and then…it starts to fizzle out. Next thing you know, it’s been 2 months since you’ve attended a wood working class. What a shame.

The first few times this happens, it’s disappointing. You invested all that time and money into learning how to do this thing you were so obsessed with. Why didn’t it stick?

This is normal. This is you and how learn. It’s really about the process and journey not if you made lots of money or gained notoriety from it.

Now, you’re most likely obsessed with something new and currently learning about it. You still like wood-working and will probably revisit it in the future. And that’s okay.

2. You struggle to answer the question, “What do you do?”

Someone asks about your career and you panic. You don’t know what to say. You’re freelancing, started a blog and working a part time retail position. What do you do? You panic and blurt out “a woodworker!”

That’s not your career or even current interest but it’s all you could think of at the moment. It’s cool. It happens to all multi-passionate people.

A tip that has helped me is to say a blanket career like “artist” or “entrepreneur.” Artist is very fitting in most cases because people just assume that means you draw or paint, which you probably do or have.

People do probe though, so just be sure to explain (if you want.) You can even say you’re a multi-passionate, why not?!

3. You have so many tabs open.

I think most can relate to this one, but your brain and probably your physical space has every tab possible open. You have unfinished drawings and crochet projects all over your house. Your notes app is pure chaos. You have a ton of different notebooks in different places. It’s a lot going on.

One thing about being multi-passionate is that it is hard to do things in a linear way. You move in a linear adjacent way, parallel if you will. Working on three different projects doesn’t bother you at all.

Your interests tend to work really well together and you rarely burn out when switching between different projects. All those tabs, are absolutely okay and that’s just how you simply operate.

4. You notice and patterns and connections in everything.

There are patterns and connections in everything that you do. Every interest that you have, have similarities.

As you collect your passions, you’ll notice that they go together real bad. For example, cooking and painting are incredibly similar.

With cooking, you mise en place your ingredients before you begin cooking. With painting (especially oil) you need to mix your paint, prep your canvas, and ventilate your space.

Sewing and knitting are similar too. You start to realize that all your interest connect to math or history.

5. Finding your one true calling makes you anxious.

As soon as you start to think about settling into one career, you get anxious. Let’s say you always keep going back to fashion design. You have an online store of homemade pajamas, but doing that for the rest of your life sounds almost crippling.

Every multi-passionate feels this on a deep level. It’s completely normal to feel this way because choosing just the one thing almost makes you feel like you’re losing a part of yourself.

Going from thinking something was wrong with you to embracing multiple passions and then only choosing one life path feels…wrong. We are just simply life long learners and that’s completely normal.

If you resonated with any of this, I think you just might be a multi-passionate person. I personally love to call myself a Renaissance woman because that fits my personality but there’s numerous names. Multipotentialite, scanner, polymaths, and generalist. You choose.

Thanks for reading,

Chelsi