Multipotentialite

Barbara Sher coined “scanner” in the 1990s for people who cannot settle on one calling, and built a career coaching them out of the shame that usually comes attached. Emilie Wapnick gave the same profile a friendlier, more clinical-sounding name in a 2015 TEDx Bend talk, “multipotentialite,” and it stuck hard enough to spawn a small publishing and coaching niche of its own.

Neither framing claims this is a diagnosis or a superpower in any measured, peer-reviewed sense. What both get right is the reframe: rotating interests are a documented, named pattern, not a personal failure to commit. The open question both leave unanswered is what to do about the actual cost of rotation, which is where a resource-allocation model earns its keep. See the M-System for one answer.