“We overestimate what we can accomplish in a day but underestimate what we can accomplish in a year.'“
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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 | 
“We overestimate what we can accomplish in a day but underestimate what we can accomplish in a year.'“
Chris Guillebeau
“Your career should be aligned with your overall goals. Your work should feel like an integrated and supportive force in your life, not the kind-of-awful-thing-you-have-to-do-to-pay-the-bills.“
Wapnick talks about life design vs. career planning. According to interviews she conducted, thriving multipotentialites (“people who display aptitudes across multiple disciplines“) shared three things in their life designs - money, meaning, and variety.
“The more you allow yourself to explore, draw connections between different ideas, dream up big projects, and collaborate with others, the stronger your superpowers will become.“
“The truth is that you aren‘t lacking a destiny or purpose. There is a very good reason for your insatiable curiosity: you‘re someone who‘s going to shake things up, create something novel, solve complex, multidimensional problems, make people‘s lives better in your own unique way. Whatever your destinies are, you can‘t step into them while stifling your multipotentiality. You must embrace it and use it.“
“Multipotentialites tend to struggle with three main areas: work, productivity, and self-esteem.”
WORK - “How the heck will I make a living?“
PROCRASTINATION - “How do you deal with the internal muck (procrastination, self-doubt, overwhelm, and chronic e-mail checking) that can prevent you from moving forward with your goals?“
SELF-ESTEEM - “. . . guilt about the inability to choose or about changing directions.“
Guilt, fear, insecurity. YES.
I can't remember how I first heard of Emilie Wapnick, but I know I decided to read her book after listening to her TED talk (link below for those interested). I'm one of those individuals she references on the cover of her book - I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. I'm 36. Well, almost 37. The first chapter - “There Is Nothing Wrong with You.“
https://www.ted.com/talks/emilie_wapnick_why_some_of_us_don_t_have_one_true_call...
I may have gone a little #KindleDailyDeals crazy today.
@avanders a couple kindle cozies are coming your way too.
pickDo you have a plethora of interests that don‘t fit neatly into one job or hobby? Still not sure what you want to be when you grow up because choosing one thing feels like the kiss of death? You may be a multipotentialite! And you don‘t have to choose just one thing. Emilie Wapnick is a fantastic guide who walks the reader through many possible paths to building a life of meaning and variety that also pays the bills. Read this and set yo‘self free!
The 5 Multipotentialite powers are:
1. Idea synthesis
2. Rapid learning
3. Adaptability
4. Big-picture thinking
5. Relating & translating
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A specialist might go straight down any one of these trajectories to the associated career, but multipotentialites are different. We move both vertically and laterally. We apply skills beyond service of their associated career, to other disciplines, and in unusual ways.
Multipotentialites are often described as "bridge builders" or "hubs of the wheel," because of how easily we communicate with and lead multidisciplinary teams.
The right time to set the stage for a transition is when you are feeling bored. Don't wait until you are so unhappy that even thinking about work makes you feel ill.
The nonfiction I'll be inhaling today between gulps of the third Harry Potter book and my own writing.
pickI was apprehensive about this book when I started, fearing it'd be a long form essay on #YOLO (you only live once) or a passionate defense of the gig economy. Instead, I found this a fascinating, empathetic, empowering read that acknowledges today's economic realities, the personal temperament of many people I know, and the ways current US culture is oriented toward a rigid, specialist career path (and how that need not be the way everyone works).
