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A jack of all trades, but master of none...
Is often times better than a master of one :)
You are smart! You just probably have ADHD. I used to feel the same way, but I eventually realized that I really don't think like others. My approximate knowledge is limited, but I can still leverage it to actually have advantages compared to others.
Also aids in bolstering intuition and the comprehension of nuance! Knowing "a little about a lot of things" means a very broad perspective which covers a lot of contingencies. It's a very good position from which to study the big picture, imo!
Edit: with the risk of getting lost in details, from personal experience.
It's a shame the concept of an "ideas man" has been ridiculed for so long, because that's precisely what it lets you be good at.
If you can put together a jack of all trades to spawn vaguely sensible ideas, and someone who hyperfocuses on a field of interest, you can just churn out good ideas that are well on the way to being implementable.the problem is that for every ideas man, you need at least 20 people to actually do the work. And that work is a lot more tedious than being the one who comes up with the ideas
and of course, most people can't tell the difference between a "good ideas man" and a "bad ideas man", and there are a lot more of the latter
Honestly, this skillset helped me a lot when they threw a QA Project Manager position at me. I had familiarised myself with at least the basics of every process enough to be able to pick up some slack myself when and where needed. Even allowed me to send the team home early at times, when there were tests which I could perform alone (they were tedious, but not extremely complex).
Plus it can lead to a lot of potential optimisation precisely by viewing the top-down perspective and noticing any interactions and dependencies which may be harder to see when in the thick of it, so to speak.
It requires some fiddling around and figuring things out, of course, but it builds upon itself - as I've mentioned initially, every new subject I assimilated built upon my intuition, and it snowballed up to the point where I've managed to intuit my way through everything which has concerned my career so far.
Yes, yes, yes! We have unfortunately snubbed out auteurship with this mass production insanity, it's a great loss...
but often times better than a master of one.
Oh I should get better at lying