How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (691 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01JFYVWLW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 355 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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. She has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, the Financial Times, Huffington Post, and Lifehacker; and her TEDx talk, "Why Some of Us Don't Have One True Calling," has been viewed three million times in thirty-four languages worldwide. She has been a workshop facilitator and a guest speaker at universities, high schools, and organizations across the United States and internationally. Emilie Wapnick is a speaker, career coach, blogge
This book will help you fulfill your biggest dreams; all of them! (Buzzfeed)“How to Be Everything is an empowering guideThis book is for the kind of people who can’t choose just one path because they aspire to be Art Directors + Restaurant Owners + Teachers + Best-Selling Authors + more all in this lifetime” (Darla Magazine)“Feel-good, encouraging advice on distilling a variety of passions and interests into success. “We are all unique, so why does there only seem to be one path towards success? How to Be Everything throws out this one-size-fits-all approach and explains how to make our diverse skills sets work for us. This book is chock full of great exercises and practical advice and we highly recommend picking up a copy. I raise my fist in solidarity, and celebrate this groun
And that is actually your biggest strength.How to Be Everything helps you channel your diverse passions and skills to work for you. 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. 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. What you are is a multipotentialite: someone with many interests and creative pursuits. 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
sensitive and real approach to navigating your multipotential life Amazon Customer As a Career Development professional, I can say that Emilie nails it with this book. The discussion of multipotentiality is one that has been largely non-existent when thinking about and planning your life and career, and Emilie lays out a clear, step by step path for every kind of mulitpotential in a way that is warm, engaging, sensitive and real -- exactly like the lovely person you see on her videos, blog and talks! I will be. Leveraging your many talents Writer I first became acquainted with Emily Wapnick through her TED talk about people with multiple avocations and interests and avocations and her naming of them as multipotentialites. I found myself nodding in agreement as she spoke, recognizing myself in certain of the characteristics she outlined. I knew I had trouble committing to one particular area of interest and found myself moving from one thing to another but not before at l. "Loved it - Very Unique" according to Amazon Customer. This book is awesome! It presents the idea that you don't have to choose a single, linear career path and provides ideas to make a varied, personalized career a reality. It is simple, direct, honest, and the advice can be applied to just about anyone, no matter where you fall on the multipotentialite-specialist spectrum. You will not find these ideas in any other career book (that I have read at least), and as a "multipotentiali