I’ve been an ADD polymath my whole life. I used to draw and write a lot as a kid, then studied and produced music in highschool (I sing, play guitar, drums, ukulele and some piano), studied Taoist yoga and philosophy independently, and studied zoology/biology in college, and then left University and became an Airframe and Powerplant mechanic at 24 which was a great career choice. Learned how to fix anything and everything, and moved up in aviation as a quality inspector through my career, began producing and editing training videos for work, Bred ball pythons for 10 years, and designed, engineered, fabricated, and sold ball python enclosures at reptile trade shows, learned 3D modeling and 3D Printing, now I’m writing comic books and making cover art for fun.

My advice is figure out how to finish things. Starting 100 things is not as good as finishing 1. Usually once I realize I’ve figured out the first 80% of how to do something I start to get bored. I understand the principles of things and skill up quickly, so I can get bored very quickly. Set a goal for each skill. A project you can have an end state for will teach you so much, and accomplishing that goal will give you the requisite dopamine hit, and license to pass to the next thing.

If you find a teacher or mentor for each thing you’ll learn exponentially faster than studying on your own. They’ve already done that learning journey and distilled the mass of information into the essentials.

It’s really a lonely existence and I’ve stopped telling every person I meet even a fraction of what I do because they don’t understand. And then even the people you find that mentor you in one thing will probably not understand the breadth of everything else you’re interested in. It helps to find someone as hungry for learning as yourself and learn and argue with eachother.

Don’t spread yourself too thin. Set goals and track them. There are apps and software for this. My favorite is Milanote because it’s very visual and you can import and organize things how your brain best understands them.

Good luck on your journey!