Do you hate it when people tell you to be well rounded?

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Who wants you to be fat? Sorry, that's what well rounded makes me think of.

I would rather have a few things that I'm really good at, although I seem to have more interests than I can juggle. It gets frustrating trying to keep them all in balance. I tend to drop a few to spend more time on just one or two.

I guess I'm like that with my story writing. I would rather work on it which I'm really good at then look for a job that won't let me reach my full potential or hang around with people that talk about things so trivial it makes me want to tear my hair out.

I have the opposite problem. I am well rounded with most stuff (not social stuff) but don't excel at anything.

To become rich you're better to excel at one thing than be average or good at the rest.

My interests are music, singing, arts & crafts, and animals!! I also like biking and swimming! Yeah, I would say thats pretty well-rounded.

Physically and likewise. It's been a bane of mine since I am only good at certain subjects and not others. I've heard the term applied to education more than anything else, mostly with math and english lit classes. Some people, like me, didn't want to take math or only basic math and stop there, while others balk at English lit.

Well rounded criteria have stood in my way more than once.

The synonym in the social world seems to be "Down to earth".

I thought a down to earth person was a realist? Well rounded means you can do a lot of things well. I apply the term to educational matters, not to people so much. Besides, who wants to be a sphere?

I wasn't sure how to answer this one. In theory, I'm all for being an expert in just a couple of things that I'm passionate about. In practice, however, my passions morph and change over time and I eventually learn about a wide variety of things.

So I'm all for inadvertent well-roundedness.

I thought it meant kind.

I've always heard people being referred to as down to earth as being easy to get along with, kind and quiet.
When people talk about celebrities they say 'he's real down to earth' meaning not arrogant, big headed because they are famous but just like one of the commoners. I visually see down to earth as being on the same plane as the working class.

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I looked it up.

Terms like that can be confusing. I never really knew what people meant when they said "down to earth." I just assumed it meant a practical person connected to reality, with no head in the clouds. The opposite of a dreamer. It made sense to me.

I don't see the connection between down to earth and well rounded.

God yes! It's like liking and being good at everything and nothing makes a person unique. People should be unique. Not clones of eachother.

"Down to earth" reminds me of this song and it will just come to me and I will find myself saying, "because that's okay get it, cause it's down to earth".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cltwERxX7Ss

Well, it is my opinion that might not be shared with the majority. But, often times, down to earth people are often contrasted with the abstract and the luftmensch types, where the down to earth person is concerned with, experienced with, and good at judging a variety of 'relevant' everyday matters as opposed to one or two irrelevant nebular matters (Which often lack experience or "good judgment" in everyday matters), making them "well rounded", especially moreso when relating with a normal person. (Thus, "down-to-earth" is synonymous in the social world which the bulk of which consists of normal people.)

I think of them as stellar thoughts as opposed to interstellar ones. The things closets to somebody's mind are the most urgent and important.

Let's say someone takes algebra in college to get their degree then go on to teach English Lit, forgetting all the algebra they ever learned in school. Seems like taking algebra wasted their time and money.

Some people aren't meant to be well rounded.

If you look like you know what you are doing, people generally let you get on with it.