This is being continuously repeated to me: if anything is to be done properly, one must specialise… It is said and repeated, and there are people who will prove it: to do something well one must specialise… That is not what I think, that is all I can say. My experience is different. I believe there are general faculties and that it is much more important to acquire these than to specialise…
And as for me, I was scolded all the time because I did many different things! And I was always told I would never be good at anything. I studied, I did painting, I did music, and besides was busy with other things still. And I was told my music would not be up to much, my painting would not be worthwhile, and my studies would be quite incomplete. Probably it is quite true, but still I have found that this had its advantages, those very advantages – I am speaking about, of widening, making supple one's mind and understanding.
