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 Are you a diver
or a scanner? Barbara Sher’s I Could Do Anything If Only I Knew
What It Was, 1995 (ISBN 0 7336 0057 3), claims that knowing the
answer to that question will help you pursue your life’s vocation.
Some
Bikwil readers will be divers, I’m sure: musicians, scientists,
artists, programmers.
Divers
aren’t satisfied with beginnings or quick insights: they hang on for
the whole ride. They need to see how things come together in the end. If
they find . . . no bottom to what they study, it’s because they’ve
opened up a new depth revealing new secrets and new puzzles, and then a
diver is in heaven.
What
about you scanners? You librarians, documentary filmmakers, explorers,
managers, teachers?
Scanners
. . . love to learn about the structure of a flower, and they love to
learn about the theory of music . . . the adventures of travel . . . the
tangle of politics . . . The world is a treasure house full of a million
works of art, and life is hardly long enough to see them all . . .
Because our culture values the diver’s specialization and
determination, we often think of scanners as people who simply won’t
get down to work . . . a foolish cultural oversight.
There’s
plenty of advice, too, for those who seem to be scanners, but who are
really divers with something blocking them from diving.
A
book well worth the scan/dive. But as to whether it will temper your
overall cynicism about American pop (pap?) psychology . . .
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