Multi-hyphenator

Pen drawing of an astronaut with a screen on his chest, displaying a heart. He carries a flag with his own picture on it, with text reading "OK."

Creative people typically do several creative things. I don’t know why. Different creative pursuits utilize many different skills, and writing poetry shouldn’t have anything to do with embroidery or interpretive dancing.

Unless creativity is its own skill, which gives some center to an artist’s web of interests.

I’m not musically inclined, and although I find doodling really relaxing I’m not particularly good at visual arts. I’m terrible with crafts. D&D requires lots of writing, but also a lot of acting, and sharp mathematical intuition. Milo Beckman’s Math Without Number has come up here before, but another point he makes in that book is that mathematicians really don’t concern themselves with the utility of theorems. Proofs have beauty all their own. Pure math is, in my opinion, a creative exercise.

But I don’t really have any math to share, so here’s a doodle instead.