Becoming A Daring Dilettante
What is a Daring Dilettante? A Daring Dilettante is somebody who finds Delight in their activities. Whether they ’re focused on a single passion such as cooking, or many passions such as cooking, writing, hiking and painting. The Daring part comes in when you stop hiding your passions from yourself and admit that you find joy and delight in your favorite activities. On the surface, this doesn’t seem like a “Daring” thing. Admitting that you find joy in cooking, what is the big deal? Admitting that you like to paint? Or hike? Or write? How is this daring, courageous or even hard? Unfortunately, admitting that you find joy in anything these days is practically an act of courage. Finding pleasure in anything, whether it ’s the exotic or the mundane is often criticized by the people around us and in many different ways. A woman who expresses her joy in cooking might hear: “Cooking? You have time for that ? I can barely find time to pick up the take out on the way home from work...