{"id":3214,"date":"2026-06-17T12:13:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theme.madsparrow.me\/most\/?p=29"},"modified":"2026-07-09T12:27:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:27:30","slug":"le-ampolle-multiolistiche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiolistica.com\/en\/blog\/le-ampolle-multiolistiche\/","title":{"rendered":"The MultiOlistica Flasks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In twenty years of professional experience, I have learned that there are essentially three different models, or approaches, to the world of work. <br><br>The first model is that of the <strong>careerist,<\/strong>followed by those who focus almost exclusively on work, aiming for professional and financial growth. The advantage is that, if you succeed in your career, you achieve full self realization and undeniable satisfaction. The disadvantage is the high price paid in terms of stress and sacrifices (especially family related), which can become extremely high if the goals are not reached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second model is what I call the <strong>separatist model:<\/strong>here the aim is to maximize the ratio between earnings and amount of work, and it is the typical approach of someone who does not love their profession. The advantage, compared to the careerist, is having more time for hobbies and projects outside of work. But this paradoxically also hides a disadvantage, because we are forced to dedicate a third of our time to activities we do not enjoy in order to fund something we do enjoy and can pursue, if we are lucky, in another third of our time (given that we spend eight hours sleeping and attending to physiological needs). In fact, this model is highly inefficient and, unless forced by financial reasons, decidedly inadvisable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The third model, finally, is the one I chose myself (being little inclined toward either careerism or separatism), making the effort to turn it into a methodology and trying to pass it on to my clients and students. This is the <strong>multiolistic model,<\/strong> based on the following principle: <strong>in work and in life, we must capitalize on what we love most and what we do best.<\/strong><em>. <\/em>The advantages of this model are so evident that they hardly need underlining, the disadvantage is that applying it requires effort, tenacity and a good deal of risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You might say, of course, it is easy to be \"multiolistic\" when you possess an extremely obvious talent, or when you have few and highly focused passions. And indeed, people in this situation are rare (think of Maradona, or an antique book dealer), because most of us know how to do several things and have more than one interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So how can the multiolistic model be applied in these cases? I will try to explain it with a \"chemical hydraulic\" analogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take a yellow flask, which we call <strong>the flask of talent and passion,<\/strong>and a blue flask, <strong>the flask of study and experience.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The yellow flask represents our creative side and contains everything we like to do, everything we love, everything we feel naturally drawn to, everything that comes easily to us. It is the flask of<strong>ASPIRATION,<\/strong>understood as desire and expectation, but also as the necessary action (\"aspirare\", to draw in) needed to bring out, almost maieutically, our true desires and talents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The blue flask, on the other hand, represents our structured side and contains everything we know how to do, everything we studied at school and university, everything we learned by working and gaining experience. This is the flask of <strong>TRASPIRATION (perspiration)<\/strong>of the effort and sweat that come with study and work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us connect these two flasks to a green tank, which we call the multiolistic tank, with the special property of filling up only with whatever is present in both the yellow flask and the blue flask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us all try the experiment of filling the two flasks with what we like to do and what we know how to do, and see how much ends up in the green tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is our goal, according to the multiolistic principle? Simple:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Understand what the yellow flask contains, and encourage it to emerge<br>2. Fill the blue flask with the right things<br>3. Increase, as much as possible, the content of the green tank<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, we must deepen, through study, experience and work, all, or a large part, of what we like to do and believe ourselves to have talent for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some tend to focus only on the yellow flask (certain artists, for example), neglecting the blue one. This brings the risk of never truly putting one's potential to use, remaining a \"wasted talent\" or a \"genius without discipline\" type.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other hand, some focus only on the blue flask (managers, at times). The consequence is spending an entire life studying and working without passion, on subjects one is not particularly drawn to, risking serious limits on one's professional growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then again, the careerist will tend to fill the blue flask by day and, perhaps, dream of the yellow one by night (or upon retirement).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The separatist, instead, will work on the blue flask in the morning (which, deep down, matters little to them), only to dedicate the afternoon to the yellow flask, reducing it to a container for hobbies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Focusing on only one flask at a time, or worse, on only one alone, in the long run narrows our field of action, makes us less efficient and less satisfied. In some cases, it can leave us with a sense of frustration and \"suffocation\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The solution is simple and natural: we must put study at the service of our talent, try to do work we love, grow and gain experience in the fields we are most drawn to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In conclusion, we must PERSPIRE for our ASPIRATIONS, only then will we finally manage to BREATHE fully, finding our natural balance and making the most of our potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In vent&#8217;anni di esperienza professionale ho imparato che esistono sostanzialmente tre diversi modelli o approcci al mondo del lavoro. Il primo modello \u00e8 quello [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-3214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metodologia-multiolistica","tag-modello-multiolistico"],"acf":{"full_width":false,"header_transparent":false,"header_white":false},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiolistica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiolistica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiolistica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiolistica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiolistica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/multiolistica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7604,"href":"https:\/\/multiolistica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions\/7604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiolistica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiolistica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiolistica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiolistica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}