About Dilettante Living
Life’s too rich to live in a niche.
Embrace your Multi-passionate self
At first glance this may look like a lifestyle site, but I like to think of it as a Lifestyle Design site. The categories all relate to the mission to create a life that allows you to engage all of your interests and passions.
Here’s how this site can help:
Work:
One of the biggest barriers to living fully is an imbalance between work and everything else. We need money to live, but can we re-structure how we earn that money so we gain time freedom?
Play:
Spend your free time living, learning, and experiencing all life has to offer.
Body:
Eating & drinking is one of life’s pleasures, but also necessary for a healthy body. Likewise, movement can be both fun and support health. Keeping your body healthy for as long as possible maximizes the time you have to enjoy living, and your ability to do so without restrictions. It’s an investment in your present and your future.
Mind:
Mental wellbeing and stimulating your brain are important to staying sharp and vital. Stress negatively impacts our physical and mental health. Allowing ourselves time to be creative frees us and is both self-care and play.
Taken together, I hope you will see this as a resource to balance your life, engage your mind and hands, and design a life where you never have to say “someday I would like to….”
Instead, make someday start today.
hello, I’m Renae, Chief Multi-passionate.
I’ve been working and playing online since 2012. I conjured up this site a few years later but after a few false starts, I let the idea sit for a while. Why? Because I believed I couldn’t be successful if I didn’t niche down.
This belief led to a series of niched down projects, all of which I gave up on or lost interest in because I am a multi-passionate. Some had some success, it wasn’t that they all failed. It was me, I broke up with them.
Or it was because of the other “them.” Them being online “gurus” telling me I couldn’t have one website about all the things.
I can get stubborn when told I shouldn’t do something. A little bit rebellious on the inside, part of me wants to prove them wrong. Another part of me is tired of hopping from project to project. I need one home for everything.
So it’s time. Time to share my journey towards designing a multi-passionate lifestyle for myself, and helping your achieve the same along the way.
Information is a Time Suck
This is an ironic statement for a content website. Especially a broad content website.
My goal is to write without fluff, succinctly, and to offer you just enough information. If you need more, I curate the best resources I can find to help you learn more.
Why? If you spend all your time learning and reading, you are not spending enough time doing. Put another way, you’re not spending enough time living.
Make time to learn, but also make time to experience life. Experiences, whether it’s a bucket list trip or a special dinner with friends are what make life rich and interesting.
I hope this site will inspire you to live fully. Keep coming back (or get on the newsletter and allow us to come to you) but don’t stay too long. Go forth and live like a dilettante.
A dilettante is someone who has various interests (often various artistic interests) without a full commitment to any one. It probably has it’s origins from mid-18th century Italy.
Today, we call such people a multi-passionate, or a multi-potentialite, or even a generalist. All three of these words are slightly different, in a nuanced way.
A multi-passionate has multiple interests that they are equally (more or less) passionate about.
A generalist knows a little about a lot of different things.
A multi-potentialite…well I have only seen one person use this term, but he uses it similarly to the definition of a multi-passionate.
A dilettante is a dabbler, so perhaps most like a generalist except more skewed towards dabbling in the arts.
Ultimately it doesn’t matter too much. I discovered the word dilettante in the dictionary when I was 19, and having a personal goal of becoming a bit of a renaissance woman, I stuck with that word.
Any word you choose to describe it, you’re here because you don’t want to have to choose one passion in life. Because life’s too rich to live in a niche.