"A Jack of all trades"
My friend K gave me such a comment. I am firstly surprised to heard this comment due to I didn't know the meaning of this comment. But after googling and think about it, this comment is quite fit for me. Firstly, I am Jack. Secondly, I learned lots of things. Thirdly, most of the things that I learnt didn't last for over three years.
Yep, I am Jack, I think you have already known it. If you are visiting this website, Jack built this website, published posts and uploaded photos.
Think for a while, I indeed learned different stuffs. I learned to play table tennis, tennis, badminton, an instrument. I learned several programming languages, Matlab, C++, Python, and R. I learned to swimming, workout, jogging, downhill skiing, mountain biking. But I keep practicing for none of them for over three years. You could call them as short-term rather than long-term experiences. It may have two exceptions. One is my major, I learned it for around ten years. However, it is kind of my career, I need something to support myself. Even I am not very good at my professional skills, especially poor at writing papers. The other one is probably photography. I have my first digital camera since June 2008. To today, I have been using digital cameras for nearly ten years. But you know, I don't take photos every day. Probably less than 5 times per month by average. I don't think I am good at photography. For example, I had my Chinese drive license from 2012. When I had my car in the USA at 2016, you may say I had 4 years' driving experience. Ironically, I seldom drive car in China and I was a new drive. I may drive less than 5 times after having my Chinese license.
Anyway, I almost master at none. The reason is simple. We have the same hours since born, which means the total hours to now is fixed. I am also not smart enough to finish something in a short time. Except for the time of sleeping and eating, if you learnt different things, you need to separate the total hours to different segment. Thinking the total hours as a big cake, sleeping and eating may take half of the cake. If you focus one task, you have half cake to this only task; while if you have multiplied tasks (such as 10 tasks), you have just 1/20 of cake for each task.
I am not sure do or learn "all trades" is good or bad. But that is how I go with and I am an extremely "stubborn" person. It is quite difficult ("IMPOSSIBLE") for me to just focus on one "task"...
The full sentence is "Jack of all trades, master of none". It is "used in reference to a person who has dabbled in many skills, rather than gaining expertise by focusing on one". From Wikipedia.