How to Be Everything, Emilie Wapnick
How to Be Everything, Emilie Wapnick
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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

Author: Emilie Wapnick

Narrator: Allyson Ryan

Unabridged: 5 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperOne

Published: 05/02/2017

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

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.

About Emilie Wapnick

Emilie Wapnick is a speaker, career coach, blogger, and community leader. She is the founder and creative director at Puttylike.com, where she helps multipotentialites integrate all of their interests to create dynamic, fulfilling, and fruitful careers and lives. Unable to settle on a single path, Emilie studied music, art, film production, and law, graduating from the Law Faculty at McGill University in 2011. 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. She has been hired as a guest speaker and workshop facilitator at universities, high schools, and organizations across the United States and internationally.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrea on August 31, 2017

I had a bit of an existential crisis this week, so when I saw this book in the library it seemed to call out my name. Truth to be told, I am 30 years old and I have no idea what I want to be when I grow up. I have a pretty useful degree, a stable job where I am valued (at least I hope so), and an ar......more

Goodreads review by Katie on June 19, 2017

I think I might have ugly cried while reading this book because it was so nice to feel like I wasn't a weirdo for not having a career path at 30. I found this book to be genuinely helpful, as well as easy to use and engaging. I might want to actually hug Emilie Wapnick and I am not a physical contac......more

Goodreads review by Jaina on June 05, 2017

I've always had a huge variety of interests. I had a terrible time deciding what major to pursue in college next year because there were so many careers I wanted to try: publicity, computer science, economics, accounting, and history were all subjects that I seriously considered majoring in at one p......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on June 14, 2017

I'm not entirely sure how to rate this book; I really enjoyed the first 1/4 or so; however in all honesty I can't even remember much of the rest. The idea behind it is great: not all of us are suited to one particular career path, and the book goes on to explain various ways in which those whom the......more

Goodreads review by José Antonio on May 28, 2017

Emilie Wapnick rose to fame after her TED talk "Why some of us don't have one true calling" that has almost 4M views. Emilie has devoted to help people who are "multipotentialites" or someone with many interests and creative pursuits. This book is an extension of her talk giving anecdotal support to......more

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