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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

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How to Be Everything

By: Emilie Wapnick
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
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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.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2017 Emilie Wapnick (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers
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Embrace the weird in you!

If you have ever felt like a lone wolf or a black sheep because of your varied & mismatched interests, by the end of this book you will happily embrace & celebrate this weirdness in you. Even more, you will learn how to use your seemingly scattered pursuits to your advantage & build a sustainable life as a mutipotenialite!

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Less informational, more encouraging

Affirming for anyone who can never just be one thing! But the book feels like it's mainly listing work types/models of polymaths. I didn't learn much, but I come from a kind of liberal family, and my parents' generation worked 40 jobs in their life. So I see it as more a book of permission. And reducing GUILT. Damn, that guilt stuff is strong.
Would be nice however to have a book such as this that guides people on how to make an income being a wearer of odd or multiple hats. It's an exhausting, often unrewarding hustle game now days, and other guidance is just entrepreneurial marketing grossness.
I'm glad I read this book. I wish I could get my dad to read it so he could know we are not beautiful flakes - we are novel minds.

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