Definitely with you on this. A niche makes you easier to understand and can be really useful, but it can also put a cage around your potential. Stay in it long enough and it starts becoming self-reinforcing, with increasingly thick bars, to really stretch the analogy!
It helps me to look at where I consistently put my energy, what connects those things and what I keep being drawn towards - get's me out of my head and into noticing what's underneath whatever words I try and put around it. Definitely takes experimentation and a few wrong turns, but something starts to fit, makes you excited about what could be done within it, without closing down what you don't even know comes next.
I agonised over this idea that I wasn't niche. Jobs have lead me from one sector to the next and I can't pretend they've all been even close to the same job. A jack of all trades is a master of none and all that.
A great mentor once reminded me that that phrase goes further ...but oftentimes better than a master of one.
Definitely with you on this. A niche makes you easier to understand and can be really useful, but it can also put a cage around your potential. Stay in it long enough and it starts becoming self-reinforcing, with increasingly thick bars, to really stretch the analogy!
It helps me to look at where I consistently put my energy, what connects those things and what I keep being drawn towards - get's me out of my head and into noticing what's underneath whatever words I try and put around it. Definitely takes experimentation and a few wrong turns, but something starts to fit, makes you excited about what could be done within it, without closing down what you don't even know comes next.
Totally agree. It’s keep doors open and closing the doors on the ones that just didn’t work out
I agonised over this idea that I wasn't niche. Jobs have lead me from one sector to the next and I can't pretend they've all been even close to the same job. A jack of all trades is a master of none and all that.
A great mentor once reminded me that that phrase goes further ...but oftentimes better than a master of one.
Absolutely! I wish more people knew that that saying had another part to it