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It’s important to note that you don’t have to earn money from all of your interests. If you just dive in and pursue what you enjoy, you may be surprised to find out which interests help you generate income and which don’t.
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Yes. I have started three different businesses in the past ten years from my different interests. Each time there is still only one that is the strongest and generates a good income for me. This is now my focus and I love the work. It's not that the others aren't valuable in some way, or that I am lacking in skill with them, it's just that they are slow earners. Those activities are now hobbies for me and I do love doing them still. However, I do love my current income generating work and I wouldn't have known about how the others earned if I didn't try marketing them. But the good news is that the other skills are still valuable enough to fall back on if my stronger income earner were to subside.
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You’ll be surprised at how many opportunities there are to use insights you learn in one field to solve problems in a seemingly unrelated field. The long-term benefit of cultivating many different interests is that you build a powerful toolkit of problem-solving patterns. This gives you more flexibility when facing certain challenges. People sometimes praise me for a brilliant insight that helped them solve a challenging problem when all I did was cross-pollinate a known solution pattern from one field to another.
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And yes, I use problem solving solutions from one field to another. It's really cool when it works out that way.
