The person willing to make unusual combinations eventually creates something difficult to categorize.

Categories are made from what already exists in quantity. Put two things together that nobody has bothered to join and the result has nowhere to file itself, which reads at first as failure and later as a signature. The uncategorizable thing is not a compromise between its parts but a new location.

List the interests you keep apart because they seem unrelated to your work. Pick two and force them into one project this week, even clumsily. What feels like a mismatch is often the only honest description of how your mind actually works.