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

What do you want to be when you grow up? It's a familiar question we're all asked as kids. 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. 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

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. Unable to settle on a single path, Emilie studie

sensitive and real approach to navigating your multipotential life Amazon Customer As a Career Development professional, I can say that Emilie nails it with this book. The discussion of multipotentiality is one that has been largely non-existent when thinking about and planning your life and career, and Emilie lays out a clear, step by step path for every kind of mulitpotential in a way that is warm, engaging, sensitive and real -- exactly like the lovely person you see on her videos, blog and talks! I will be including her book as a must read in everything I do. As a multipotential person myself, I have lived the journey of trying to navigate and manage different interests all the while maintaining . Writer said Leveraging your many talents. I first became acquainted with Emily Wapnick through her TED talk about people with multiple avocations and interests and avocations and her naming of them as multipotentialites. I found myself nodding in agreement as she spoke, recognizing myself in certain of the characteristics she outlined. I knew I had trouble committing to one particular area of interest and found myself moving from one thing to another but not before at least giving it my full attention and accomplishing something with which I was satisfied (e.g., a painting, a wood carving, a short story). There was always something of interest to me that I wan. Loved it - Very Unique This book is awesome! It presents the idea that you don't have to choose a single, linear career path and provides ideas to make a varied, personalized career a reality. It is simple, direct, honest, and the advice can be applied to just about anyone, no matter where you fall on the multipotentialite-specialist spectrum. You will not find these ideas in any other career book (that I have read at least), and as a "multipotentialite" college student I found it immensely useful. It is a much more holistic career book that challenges you to decide what you want your lifestyle to look like - how much money do you really nee

(Todd Rose, Harvard University scientist, co-founder and president of the Center for Individual Opportunity, and author of The End of Average)“Emilie brings hope, tools, inspiration and affirmation to the most misunderstood and undervalued segment of our society: multipotentialites. “We are all unique, so why does there only seem to be one path towards success? How to Be Everything throws out this one-size-fits-all approach and explains how to make our diverse skills sets work for us. This book is chock full of great exercises and practical advice and we highly recommend picking up a copy. I raise my fist in solidarity