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RE: Navigating my Way Through Life with "Too Many Interests Syndrome!"
You seem to have unearthed a cluster of multi-talented individuals. As you say, it isn't a lack of focus, it's just a change in focus.
I figure I just enjoy solving puzzles, so that once a puzzle has been solved, merely carrying on in the same vein coz I'm "good at it" loses its appeal - moving on to the next shiny puzzle may well be in a completely different area. I've never found a "job" that would satisfy that - blogging comes close.
A friend of mine-- who knew a lot about NLP-- observed that I just like to "chunk small." Meaning that I prefer to start and complete lots of super short tasks in sequence... rather than have one long ongoing and fluid task.
And that's very true. It's why I really enjoy "social blogging" like we do on Steemit, but have never been able to write a complete book. Here, every post, every comment is a complete "task" that is DONE once I click "POST." There's no follow-up, or "call back" or having to think about it over a long period of time.
It's also why selling on eBay worked for me... each listing is it's own separate universe. I list something, it sells... and it's DONE. Completed. There's no state of "ongoing."
I've done some similar things. Had a secondhand bookshop; made a lot when Amazon first started allowing dealers to sell on their listings as I often had the only copy in their back catalogue, and most people had then never heard of Bookfinder or Abebooks.
But what the internet gave, the internet then took away! Many beautiful, limited edition, "rare" books were suddenly not so rare - price pressure was down down down. The money was in original ephemera.
Anyway, rambling; not sure about the small chunking (never liked the word!) as I can think top-down as well as bottom-up. I enjoy thinking across disciplines - one of my favourite TV series remains James Burke's Connections. I have written a book; some chapters were harder work than others, but got it finished!
The one puzzle that remains "ongoing" is "what am I doing here?!" :-)