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Some of us are multipotentialites, “someone with many interests and creative pursuits,” explains Emilie Wapnick, founder and creative director at Puttylike. “Multipotentialites thrive on learning, exploring and mastering new skills.” That description sounds very much like Jasika Nicole.

Though best known for her role as head of pathology, Dr Carly Lever, in ABC’s The Good Doctor, the third season of which has just shaken fans with an earth-quaking cliffhanger–fear not, “Carly does not die in the earthquake!”–the 40-year-old wasn’t all that drawn to the character initially. “Honestly, Carly started out as a recurring character in season one, so there wasn’t much to her,” Jasika explains. “I was excited that she was a woman

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