Writing · 3 min

Master of Many

A passage from the forthcoming Convergence book, on range as a birthright rather than a rare gift.

The forthcoming Convergence book has a name for the kind of person the whole practice points toward. Not the specialist who traded every other part of life for one skill, and not the dabbler who touches many things and lands on none. Something more whole than either.

From the manuscript: “The Convergant is a ‘Jack of All Trades’ who, rather than being ‘Master of None’ is ‘Master of Many’. Embodied creativity enhances every aspect of their life. This level of proficiency is our birthright and the greatest gift we can give ourselves, our community and the planet. It is built in and only awaiting our choice to come to fruition.”

Read that last line slowly. Built in, and only awaiting our choice. The claim is that integration is the natural state of a human being, and that most of us were trained out of it, asked to pick a lane and stay in it until the other capacities went quiet.

Convergence is the practice of choosing back in. The book walks the whole path: the life that made the method necessary, and the road from a scattered set of talents to one coherent way of living. You are not born a Convergant. You become one, the moment the parts stop competing.

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