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books, careers, Emilie Wapnick, Multipotentialite
"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
It's a familiar question we're all eventually 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 as
Emilie Wapnick would say, that may actually be your biggest strength.
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