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    How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up
    How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up
    How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up
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    How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up

    By Emilie Wapnick

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    What do you want to be when you grow up? It's a familiar question we're all asked as kids. While seemingly harmless, the question has unintended consequences. It can make you feel like you need to choose one job, one passion, one thing to be about. Guess what? You don't.

    Having a lot of different interests, projects and curiosities doesn't make you a "jack-of-all-trades, master of none." Your endless curiosity doesn't mean you are broken or flaky. What you are is a multipotentialite: someone with many interests and creative pursuits. And that is actually your biggest strength.

    How to Be Everything helps you channel your diverse passions and skills to work for you. Based on her popular TED talk, "Why some of us don't have one true calling", Emilie Wapnick flips the script on conventional career advice. Instead of suggesting that you specialize, choose a niche or accumulate 10,000 hours of practice in a single area, Wapnick provides a practical framework for building a sustainable life around ALL of your passions.
    You'll discover:
    •  Why your multipotentiality is your biggest strength, especially in today's uncertain job market.
    •  How to make a living and structure your work if you have many skills and interests.
    •  How to focus on multiple projects and make progress on all of them.
    •  How to handle common insecurities such as the fear of not being the best, the guilt associated with losing interest in something you used to love and the challenge of explaining "what you do" to others.
     
    Not fitting neatly into a box can be a beautiful thing. How to Be Everything teaches you how to design a life, at any age and stage of your career, that allows you to be fully you, and find the kind of work you'll love.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 2, 2017
    ISBN9780062566683
    Author

    Emilie Wapnick

    Emilie Wapnick is a speaker, career coach, blogger, and community leader. She is the founder and creative director at Puttylike.com, where she helps multipotentialites integrate all of their interests to create dynamic, fulfilling, and fruitful careers and lives. Unable to settle on a single path, Emilie studied music, art, film production, and law, graduating from the Law Faculty at McGill University in 2011. Emilie is a TED speaker and has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, The Financial Times, The Huffington Post, and Lifehacker. Her TED talk, “Why Some of Us Don’t Have One True Calling,” has been viewed over 3.5 million times, and has been translated into 36 languages. She has been hired as a guest speaker and workshop facilitator at universities, high schools, and organizations across the United States and internationally.

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    • 3/5
      Some practical thoughts on how to explore, and live with being a multi potentiate, but some things may be more more helpful and meaningful depending where you are.
    • 5/5
      Life-changing! Truly. I needed to read this book. Thank you, Emilie! ?
    • 5/5
      Great book for people with an itch to know if their path is the correct one.
    • 5/5
      Great guide for those looking with many passions seeking career advice!
    • 4/5
      A great book works as a guide for those who wanted to do everything.
      With a practical plan to commit.
    • 5/5
      This is the book I’ve been looking for and needed!!
    • 3/5
      It was a good, light but helpful read. I would definitely recommend it.
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    • 5/5
      This is an really usefull book for the entire world! It should be read by everybody and specially for teenagers and parents (or future parents). Apart of being written in a fresh, clear and amazing way, is educational in a level all we need, even more for multipotentialites.
      Amazing book. Its going to my top 3.
    • 5/5
      Great book. Feels good to know there are other people like me. Now I am not alone and feeling motivated to take up my favorite projects, be open about my interests to others and a sense of self-confidence.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Good for those who can't choose a single path and like many things at the same time.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Modern culture sometimes has hard-to-shake core beliefs. The social mores tend to suggest that workers specialize (or sub-specialize) in one thing. We expect people to define themselves by their work, and their work must consist of one main task or calling. That’s easy for people who are good at only one thing or favor/enjoy only one thing.However, some of us have trouble fitting into that mold. We do multiple things well and enjoy the variety. Specialization can seem like an albatross around our necks instead of a stable source of happiness. Few resources exist for this personality and career type. Career counselors do not often suggest this path when people plan their lives. Yet as Wapnick describes in this book (and my life exemplifies), a multifaceted career path can lead to happiness, financial stability, and interesting products.Being unusual is tough. People often describe me as “brilliant,” but don’t see how traditional roles usually lead me to dead ends. They idealize “the road less travelled,” but don’t see how difficult it sometimes is. Wapnick writes for audiences just like me. I develop software and lead a community of users at work, read books and write reviews as a hobby, teach and coordinate a impactful Sunday School class, and engage in interesting play with my family. And like Wapnick, I’m happy the way I am, thank you.Her book is broken up into three main parts. The first part describes what a “multipotentialite” is – someone who has multiple talents or does multiple things well. Tradition has described this path in many ways, including genius, polymath, jack of all trades but master of none, among others. The second part describes different ways that people have pursued this lifestyle. Key aspects are how much variety is needed in a week and how sequentially versus simultaneously one pursues various interests. She then describes several successful strategies people have historically taken to express themselves. Finally, the last part consists of more of a self-help handbook for this personality type. Living as a multipotentialite in a world where so many people define themselves by just one thing can be difficult. Wapnick offers some helpful suggestions she’s learned along the way.This book seems to help a need in an original way. Few books address this topic and focus on financial stability along with personal happiness, like Wapnick does. Central is redefining one’s understanding of career. This book is practical and focused on those of us who live a bit differently than the rest. It also should receive an audience with career counselors, human resource professionals, and career mentors to understand differences in people. Those groups are specific niches, but they are successfully filled in this examination about how being multiple and plural can actually aid one through life.
    • 4/5
      I have followed Emilie's blog for years and have identified as a "multipotentialite" ever since I first watched her TED talk. I was so excited when I first saw she was releasing a book and it didn't disappoint! The most useful part of this book for me was reading about the different work models for multipotentialites, but the book as a whole is inspiring and reassuring. I also love how Emilie reminds the reader that the concepts and models she mentions are completely malleable.

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