How to be Everything by Emilie Wapnick

This book, How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up was a hoot. Emilie Wapnick provides a structure for individuals who are not content to do one thing people she calls multipotentialites.  Variety can come sequentially, within one job, several part time gigs or using a good enough job to provide financially for time to explore side projects without the pressure to generate income.

I appreciated the author's zest for life. It's how I've chosen to live my life by having many projects going on at once each in the area that interests me. It's a prescription to allow a person to experience all of the colors of their life and plant a garden with a big variety of plants.  You don't have to be the best in each area spending (M. Gladwell's 10,000 hours) to still have fun learning new things with the knowledge that it will be awkward at first but get better with more experience.

She has sage advice about making sure that you structure these multiple experiences so that you can have enough income to support the variety through her puttylike website.  She also has some good advice about figuring out when it's time to move on to another job or activity.  If you wake up and dread going to work on a regular basis, it's time to start looking around for another opportunity working with the help of others to find a better fit.

How to be Everything - 8 min. 14 secs.



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