I'd have to say that my passion is seeing how the puzzle pieces fit together. Much more so than any single discipline. It's the thrill of discovery. And sifting each little piece of information into the greater frame of reference.
If'n I get time, for example, I plan to make Sinterklaas speculaas cookies to give to my friends at 12th Night. And at some point, investigate why it is that the end product of my Great-grandmother's sugar cookies are so very similar to the "Finer Jumbles" from The English Housewife. RIght after I finish making my gown. ;-)
The one time I had cause to work with a professional psychologist who specialized in learning styles and and intelligence, he finally looked me up and down and told me I had "The Gift." It isn't purely intelligence as measured by an IQ score - though there's that element. It's more the ability to file away random bits of information and later drag them out and put them in the pattern. Synthesis, at an instinctive level.
This is why I prefer to continue to learn new things than to become the end-all-be-all expert on one extremely narrow subject. Once I learn something, I'm not that interested in repeating it - I'd rather move on to something new... look, a butterfly!!
I'll make multiple variations on a gown - but I'm unlikely to ever make precisely the same style twice.
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Date: 2009-12-18 12:28 pm (UTC)I'd have to say that my passion is seeing how the puzzle pieces fit together. Much more so than any single discipline. It's the thrill of discovery. And sifting each little piece of information into the greater frame of reference.
If'n I get time, for example, I plan to make Sinterklaas speculaas cookies to give to my friends at 12th Night. And at some point, investigate why it is that the end product of my Great-grandmother's sugar cookies are so very similar to the "Finer Jumbles" from The English Housewife. RIght after I finish making my gown. ;-)
The one time I had cause to work with a professional psychologist who specialized in learning styles and and intelligence, he finally looked me up and down and told me I had "The Gift." It isn't purely intelligence as measured by an IQ score - though there's that element. It's more the ability to file away random bits of information and later drag them out and put them in the pattern. Synthesis, at an instinctive level.
This is why I prefer to continue to learn new things than to become the end-all-be-all expert on one extremely narrow subject. Once I learn something, I'm not that interested in repeating it - I'd rather move on to something new... look, a butterfly!!
I'll make multiple variations on a gown - but I'm unlikely to ever make precisely the same style twice.