It's not easy, witness all the mail I get from readers of Refuse to Choose thanking me because they thought they were the only people as peculiar as they are. When a Scanner is surrounded by other Scanners it's a lovely thing to behold. Imagine: no critics, no one saying you're flakey or lazy.
If you can come to the September retreat, do it. I have a few spaces left and the Masseria in Puglia, Italy is so beautiful. Head over to www.geniuspress.com to see photos and get an explanation of what a Scanner is, and what we do at the retreat. I'm heading out for L.A. where one group from a year ago is having a reunion and we're meeting at the beach in a few days. The first ever Scanner retreat 3 years ago is now having their second reunion in Tuscany. It's like they found their families. Which is good because Scanners aren't only interesting and interested, they're almost always good people. Amazing.
But if you really are in the dark as to what a Scanner is, they call themselves things like:
Eclectic Expert, Magnificent Mind-Changer, Delightful Dilettante, Jolly Jack-of-all-trades, Precocious Plate-Spinner or any victims of repeated hit-and-run obsessions; the intellectual, spiritual & emotional heirs of Aristotle, da Vinci, Goethe, Ben Franklin, Isadora Duncan, and George Plimpton.
Yes, there are great careers for you. I remember a High-Speed Indecisive who got a dream job, some years ago. Leave a comment and I'll be glad to tell you what it was but got to get to sleep to get up to fly out of here in the morning. (He loved it -- for about 2 years -- and then moved on to (I hope) an even better job.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Where does a Scanner find other Scanners?
At a book club! (Sound of hand hitting my own forehead).
I'm writing this on September 1, 2014.
Who knew back in '08 that the first book club (it was for I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was) would be so incredible. I was blown away at the depth of understanding members got from doing the exercises together, and the warmth and support that developed over the 16 weeks of that first book club.
That's why I decided the second book club should be about Refuse to Choose:
Scanners are too often alone.
There are places to meet online, I'm happy to say. Facebook is great, and so is my bulletin board (for meeting Scanners, that is) - and LinkedIn and more.
But the 6-day retreats I ran in Greece, Italy and France, where Scanners could really get to know each other, and discuss over long days for almost an entire week the difficulties faced by all Scanners and all people with lots of interests, lots of curiosity and creativity and intelligence are no more. So many of the people who attended them - from 2006 until 2013 - have stayed lifetime friends.
But now, 6 years later, my age and health won't let me run them anymore.
So Where does a Scanner find other Scanners? Ho ho!!! At this book club!!
That's why I'm so excited about the book club! (I'm driving Patty crazy sending announcements before the links are ready!)
You're going to meet other Scanners on a deeper level than you could anywhere else, and you'll be solving your own problems, getting your questions answered, finding out how to wrangle all those interests and talents, worries and difficulties. You'll know like you haven't realized before that you are all right, better than all right. You'll find the people who 'get you.' Why? Because you'll be doing all the Refuse to Choose exercises with them, you'll be commenting and replying to each other, and having discussions right on the page.
And you'll be doing it for 16 weeks.
And you'll spend (including travel and tuition) about 100 times less money than it took to come to a retreat.
You're going to know these people by the time you complete the Refuse to Choose Book Club.
Isolation is the dreamkiller, and Scanners are so often alone. That's got to stop.
It's 7pm on September 1, 2014. If you're on my mailing list, look for the newsletter that will sent you to the site -- any minute.
If you have any problems, come over to barbarasclub.com and holler!
(I'm still waiting to see if I can get notified when you leave a comment on this blog!)
Hi guys. I've missed you.
:-)
I'm writing this on September 1, 2014.
Who knew back in '08 that the first book club (it was for I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was) would be so incredible. I was blown away at the depth of understanding members got from doing the exercises together, and the warmth and support that developed over the 16 weeks of that first book club.
That's why I decided the second book club should be about Refuse to Choose:
Scanners are too often alone.
There are places to meet online, I'm happy to say. Facebook is great, and so is my bulletin board (for meeting Scanners, that is) - and LinkedIn and more.
But the 6-day retreats I ran in Greece, Italy and France, where Scanners could really get to know each other, and discuss over long days for almost an entire week the difficulties faced by all Scanners and all people with lots of interests, lots of curiosity and creativity and intelligence are no more. So many of the people who attended them - from 2006 until 2013 - have stayed lifetime friends.
But now, 6 years later, my age and health won't let me run them anymore.
So Where does a Scanner find other Scanners? Ho ho!!! At this book club!!
That's why I'm so excited about the book club! (I'm driving Patty crazy sending announcements before the links are ready!)
You're going to meet other Scanners on a deeper level than you could anywhere else, and you'll be solving your own problems, getting your questions answered, finding out how to wrangle all those interests and talents, worries and difficulties. You'll know like you haven't realized before that you are all right, better than all right. You'll find the people who 'get you.' Why? Because you'll be doing all the Refuse to Choose exercises with them, you'll be commenting and replying to each other, and having discussions right on the page.
And you'll be doing it for 16 weeks.
And you'll spend (including travel and tuition) about 100 times less money than it took to come to a retreat.
You're going to know these people by the time you complete the Refuse to Choose Book Club.
Isolation is the dreamkiller, and Scanners are so often alone. That's got to stop.
It's 7pm on September 1, 2014. If you're on my mailing list, look for the newsletter that will sent you to the site -- any minute.
If you have any problems, come over to barbarasclub.com and holler!
(I'm still waiting to see if I can get notified when you leave a comment on this blog!)
Hi guys. I've missed you.
:-)
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