- PrettyChill ◉ by Jef Quin
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- Many passions (one identity)
I used to over-compartmentalize everything in my life.
I called it organization and productivity. 😁
But I ended up with multiple websites, many social media accounts and different names…and overwhelm.
If you know me or follow me, you know what I’m talking about (lol).
I thought this would bring clarity. Everything had its own place…its own home to create.
Right?
Well, it ended up just fracturing my focus and slowed my personal creative goals.
But even now, it still feeeels logical to separate things into different realms.
Music, writing, travel, art…design, etcetera—how can all these things live together?
One of the confusing parts about being multi-passionate is feeling like you have multiple identities, with a rotating spotlight depending on your mood.
There’s no single lane, clean title or point of focus. It’s all scattered.
But I realized something recently (which feels annoyingly obvious)…despite all my passions and projects, there is one constant—it’s me.
Slightly different versions of me, sure, but it’s still all me.
I show up with the same values, perspectives, quirks, personality and style. The same throughlines, ethos and undertones exist across everything I do.
How I travel, how I draw…the songs I make and how I talk.
Maybe that’s the important part…not the art or the music or the website, but the point of view I have…
—the lifestyle I embody and promote.
This idea is Rick Rubin’s gruff with AI: it has no point of view; the POV is the role of the artist.
So maybe it doesn’t matter so much what we’re doing, but how we’re doing it. Our unique style and approach to doing [anything].
Your lifestyle.
This makes juggling multiple domains feel suddenly easy. Because your core identity shows up no matter what you’re doing.
Each seemingly random thing is actually a core character in the lifestyle movie you’re promoting.
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