I feel like I want to try everything?

I've struggled with that as well, but I've came to some kind of solution lately. It's perhaps more like a philosophy rather than a concrete solution, but that philosophy leads me to accept whatever I concretely decide to do as well.

I think seeing all the choices at once can make one blind to how "deep" each of them can be.

Whatever you decide to do, it'll be an endless journey if you just want it to be. If you're hungry for new information and get bored too easily, even the most unusual and not-so-well-known disciplines have lots and lots of different, all the time developing branches. You only have to dive in there. There will almost always be a new branch growing from the one you're currently examining. Maybe you could even bring your own visions to the field, create your own branches?

Job-wise. Where I live, master's degrees qualify you to many kinds of jobs both in your own specific field and in many other nearby fields. You can apply for many different jobs with your master's degree, and people with many different master's degrees can apply for the same job. Say, there's a vacancy in a job center for "a consultant". People who apply for that vacancy can vary all the way from social workers to pedagogues and they're pretty much on the same line.

If your country is anywhere similar to mine and you roughly know what you want to do, go study something that is "almost there". Unless you want to have a job that needs you to have a specific, juridical profession title, such as doctor or psychiatrist: then, of course, you have to choose the specific degree programme which gives you one. If you don't want to have a specific profession title, you have pretty free hands.

You can also feed your interests via minors. And it's not like you couldn't study different interests in your free time. Libraries, archives, research journals etc. are all yours.

I find it maybe somewhat megalomaniac to think one could do everything. To some extent yes, but to really search all the roots and branches in all the fields out there in their authentic exactness?

I think it's fine as long as I can do something that satisfies me, that gives me a good living quality, even if it didn't gather together everything that I'm interested in. Having a good, satisfied mood -> having a good life experience -> being able to accept the life as it is -> being open to all the options.

There's the little megalomaniac inside me as well that obsesses over every choice I do and how those choices suppress other choices. But in my experience, good living quality usually naturally tunes you to being accepting, optimistic, curious, open to changes and so on. It lowers the voice of the megalomaniac, that in essence is exaggerating and unrealistic and thus depressing, down.

Sometimes having less is better: trying to have it all and obsessing around the unrealistic idea can make you depressed. It's perhaps better to keep up general good life quality and make little steps here and there. Being depressed and unable to do anything inside the web of choices will not give you any progress. If you can't let go of the dream of taking every route at once, you'll stay in the middle of the web not being able to take any step forever.

If you're not a very well-developed AI, it's not possible to do everything at once. It would be hollow. Time and the capacity of our brains become your enemy. Learning takes time and and time is crucial in deepening our understanding. But you can plant some nice seeds now and see how much more understanding and wise you're 30 years later :-)

Even if it's a bit megalomaniac to think you could become a specialist in everything, academic studies somewhat overlap as well. Taking one step in the web of choices can give you understanding that exceeds the route you're currently walking on. I think all the routes are similar in that matter. We can't rip off life into clean-cut sections, some of it will always leak out of the sections and emerge with other sections. I'm getting pretty wild with all these allegories, hopefully it's not too confusing.

So.. if you know even roughly what you want to do, you're in a pretty good position. Try to figure that out? Even if you weren't able to name one specific job you wanted to do, what areas of life tickle you the most? To me, that something is psychology and everything related to it, and I'm aiming to study social psychology as a major and psychology as a minor at the moment.

I can't seem to stop myself from adding new ideas and polishing the old ones in this writing, so I'll just stop here. Hope this could awake even little thoughts.

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