Are You a One Trick Pony?

Susan Wilson-Willis
5 min readJun 18, 2019

Why I Suggest People Do More Than What They Love

When I talk to my young adult kids about their passions, I say to them, “Don’t be a one trick pony. Who are you outside of the thing you love?”

Here are a few things I ask and why I ask it:

1.You want to be an athlete? Injuries happen. Imagine being forced out of sports for months trying to rehab. What would you do to…

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Susan Wilson-Willis

Author/illustrator, owner of Werzcat Books. Dog shelter volunteer, former figure skater & yoga teacher, mom of 4. “What fools these mortals be.”