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How To Be Everything

By Emilie Wapnick

How To Be Everything
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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.


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Happy New Year 2078 to all our beautiful Nepali fa Happy New Year 2078 to all our beautiful Nepali family and friends! नयाँ बर्षको शुभकामना!Three years now since we've seen you after our trip was covid cancelled in 2020. We miss you all and think of you every day 😍I made daal bhat last night to celebrate but honestly it tasted like sock juice compared to Ama's...#HappyNewYear2078 #नयाँबर्षकोशुभकामना #Nepal #Framily #MissYou #TheMagicOfEverything #Multipotentialite #Multipassionate #Dalbaht #DalbhatPower #2078
Ahhh Sunday, welcome back... 😍 Only naps, the 5 Ahhh Sunday, welcome back... 😍 Only naps, the 5 books I bought for 5 bucks @salvosstores yesterday, an entire block of 95% dark chocolate and endless Cavoodle cuddles on the agenda for today...
#LazySunday #Unbusy #ThatViewThough #Housesitting  #DogsOfInstagram #NomadLife #SundayMorning #AussieBush #CavoodlesOfInstagram #Cavoodle #NomadGirls #TheMagicOfEverything #Multipotentialite #Multipod #Multipassionate
Most days I feel pretty philosophical about being Most days I feel pretty philosophical about being locked in one of my home countries, unable to get to my other home country because of covid. I often catch myself saying, “We’re lucky to be in Australia where we have so much freedom,” and “It’s all good, we’re all healthy! Could be worse!”
But then we arrived at our new housesit on Monday and the homeowner showed me our bedroom... and when I saw this picture hanging large over the bed I was hit by a sudden rush of tears and emotion. Because originally we’d planned to be back living in France this year. But instead, it’s now been two years since we last hugged our French family or had a conversation with them in 3D. Two years to the day since my father-in-law and I went to see @vintagetrouble perform at La Cigale in Paris... Two years tomorrow since we shared a fondue with my mother-in-law in Normandie...So yes we’re lucky and healthy and of course it could be worse, but maybe… sometimes… in our quest to “keep calm and carry on” our relentless positivity masks a pain we can’t acknowledge is there until someone paints it on our bedroom wall.#CovidThoughts #Paris #France #FrenchAustralian #AussieAbroad #Homesick #WallArt #🇫🇷#KeepCalmAndCarryOn #HappyThoughts #ToxicPositivity #TheMagicOfEverything #Multipotentialite
A lovely signpost to lots of places we can’t go A lovely signpost to lots of places we can’t go right now... As a permanent wanderer, what’s surprised me most about the border closures in Australia is just how much I *haven’t* missed travelling overseas.  Any other nomadic types out there feeling the same way? Maybe it’s because this kind of lifestyle gets us in the habit of rolling with change and uncertainty... Or maybe it’s because I’m just so fricking grateful we have the freedom in Australia to travel at all... Who needs Bermuda when you can visit the Berry Donut Van? 🍩 🚌#FeelingLucky #Grateful #StrangeTimes #SignpostToEverywhere #Australia #DigitalNomad #WomenWhoTravel #SheRoams #DigitalNomadGirls #BusLife #VanLife #Berry #BerryDonutVan #NomadLife
Today’s office is brought to you by @juneelicori Today’s office is brought to you by @juneelicoriceandchocolate and this is definitely the best dark chocolate nut milk breakfast I’ve had this year... and yes, that’s a sheep 🐑☕️👩‍💻 #BestHotChocolate #Junee #VisitNSW #BusLife #VanLife #Wandering #SheepOfInstagram
Ever since I took up Kung Fu 3 months ago, I’ve Ever since I took up Kung Fu 3 months ago, I’ve traded my butter knife for a sword and bo staff as my weapons of choice first thing in the morning. Taking up martial arts at 40 is such a multipotentialite move but if you think it also sounds a bit “midlife crisisish”... well, you would be absolutely 100% bang on the money. This time last year I was in total crisis mode, struggling with severe pelvic pain and unable to function. The only exercise I could manage without triggering a flare up was walking. Now a year later I’m training at the Kung Fu Academy 5 hours a week and I find myself jumping out of bed in the morning to go swing my Taiji sword in the persimmon fields just for fun. So if this is what a midlife crisis feels like then bring it on, I say... 🌿⚔️ #WeaponsForBreakfast #KungFu #TaiChi #LifeCrisisInAction
#taiji #martialarts #fitnessgoals #40andfabulous #multipotentialite #themagicofeverything #lifegoals #multipassionate #scanner #renaissancesoul #multipotentialites
🚌 And just like that we’re back in Maurice th 🚌 And just like that we’re back in Maurice the House Bus... parked on a beautiful persimmon orchard... doing the lazy Sunday thing we do so well... 🚌 #goodtobehome #pepperminttea #darkchocolate #travelmemoir #journalling #christmaspresentsinaction #buslife #lazysundays #closetonature #lifeisgood #2021 #sofarsogood #vanlife #nomadlifestyle #themagicofeverything #multipotentialite
✨ I snapped this pic while paying for my shoppin ✨ I snapped this pic while paying for my shopping at an unusual grocery store...✨ In August and September we spent a month housesitting in a rural area of the Central Coast where the nearest supermarket was 22kms away. The closest place to buy food was a 6kms drive where a woman affectionately referred to as “the rainbow lady” sold mostly locally grown fruit and veg at a roadside stall. Either you could swap things with your own produce or you could leave money in the letter box. It all worked on an honesty system. And if you didn’t have cash, you had to go down to the horse paddock and stand in the only square metre that had enough mobile phone reception to transfer money via internet banking while Joey the Cashier Horse watched on…#InDecemberIRemember #DecemberReflections2020 #HindsightIs2020 #Housesitting #RuralLife #CountryLife #HorsesOfInstagram #OnlineShopping #LocalSupermarket #TheMagicOfEverything #Multipotentialite #horses #horsepower #roadsidestall
✨SOMETHING THAT MADE ME SMILE IN 2020✨ My once ✨SOMETHING THAT MADE ME SMILE IN 2020✨ My once daily dose of kiddy cuteness on @livefromsnacktime (swipe left for my recent faves) ✨#InDecemberIRemember #DecemberReflections2020 #HindsightIs2020 #Fun #Funny #kidssaythedarndestthings #reasonstosmile #TheMagicOfEverything #Multipotentialite #kidsofinstagram
✨SOMETHING THAT MOVED ME IN 2020✨@humansofny ✨SOMETHING THAT MOVED ME IN 2020✨@humansofny and the Facebook group the Kindness Pandemic have been my favourite digital comfort food in 2020… But the first thing I thought of when I saw this reflection prompt is images of our Pacific neighbours pushing wheelbarrows through the streets of their villages collecting money for Australian bushfire relief (photo credit @abcnews_au )In Papua New Guinea, where the minimum hourly wage is just over $1, the local people raised thousands of dollars to help communities affected by the fires. Unbelievable generosity... In an interview with the ABC one woman explained the wheelbarrow campaign was all about sending love, support and gratitude to a much-loved neighbour."We say Australia is our 'Momma Country', the country that helped us to be where we are right now. Most of us benefit from Australian aid which builds health centres and hospitals, that's why we took this initiative so that we could at least do something at the community level, that's why we did this."This is how I want to remember 2020 ✨#InDecemberIRemember #DecemberReflections2020 #HindsightIs2020 #GiveHope #TheKindnessPandemic #HumansOfNewYork #PapuaNewGuinea #Vanuatu #GoodNeighbours #GivingBack #TheMagicOfEverything #Multipotentialite
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