Totally agree. And I believe those other interests may make you more valuable in some other context (such as a business owner, people manager, parent or spouse, etc).
I once heard the terms "T Person" and "I Person" as ways to represent a person's skills (though I don't find any info on it with any Google searches; maybe I'll write about it someday).
An I Person is someone whose skills are very narrow (vertical). This person is a specialist and probably spends the majority of his/her time perfecting that skill.
A T Person is someone who also has a predominant skill, but it's perhaps not as deep as an I Person. However, a T Person has a horizontal bar that stretches across a range of skills.
I don't recall hearing about a "- (Dash) Person", but if I were to continue this analogy, that would be a jack of all trades, master of none.
Society needs all types of people, but I suspect T People are especially desirable in a startup. You want a person who can do a little of everything, but excels in one particular area.
I once heard the terms "T Person" and "I Person" as ways to represent a person's skills (though I don't find any info on it with any Google searches; maybe I'll write about it someday).
An I Person is someone whose skills are very narrow (vertical). This person is a specialist and probably spends the majority of his/her time perfecting that skill.
A T Person is someone who also has a predominant skill, but it's perhaps not as deep as an I Person. However, a T Person has a horizontal bar that stretches across a range of skills.
I don't recall hearing about a "- (Dash) Person", but if I were to continue this analogy, that would be a jack of all trades, master of none.
Society needs all types of people, but I suspect T People are especially desirable in a startup. You want a person who can do a little of everything, but excels in one particular area.
EDIT: Found a reference to this concept - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills