How to Be Everything by Emilie Wapnick

How to Be Everything

by Emilie Wapnick

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...Read more

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Initial thoughts: Before listening to this audiobook, I hadn't heard of the term "mu;tipotentialist". In fact, I had no idea what to expect in terms of content. I borrowed How to Be Everything because the title intrigued me. So glad I did because I related so much to this.

It gave me some ideas to hash out my goals, although at this point I didn't find it groundbreaking anymore. I had already spent a lot of time earlier this year, trying to figure out how I'm going to combine several of my interests into a worthy pursuit beyond a 9-to-5 job.

Wish this book had existed ten years ago though, when I was just figuring out what I'd do at university and my ambitions beyond.

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