It's okay to not be a master of anything, because by becoming a master you sacrifice your broadness of knowledge. Keep being yourself, enjoy learning new stuff. Forcing myself into trying to be a master of something made me depressed and unhappy with my life.

You always hear about masters of a domain, but this branch is not fit to everyone and it's okay. Capitalism and elitism makes it difficult to see that.

[–] melisdrawing@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

The popular idiom is often shortened, making it seem contrary in meaning, but the full phrase is: A Jack of all trades, and master of none, is oftentimes better than a master of one.

[–] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

this is not a binary situation. you can be a master of one, two, or even more things and still have a broad base.

it's also all relative and honestly just being happy with what you have, both in terms of material things as well as mental skills/knowledge is a good thing. doesn't mean you stop learning or earning but you don't have to be disappointed if you don't get x amount of dollars or a y number of square feet in your house or z number of factoids in your trivia database