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How to Be Everything Audiobook Summary

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.

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How to Be Everything Audiobook Narrator

Allyson Ryan is the narrator of How to Be Everything audiobook that was written by 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.

About the Author(s) of How to Be Everything

Emilie Wapnick is the author of How to Be Everything

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Subjects

The publisher of the How to Be Everything is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Business & Economics, Careers, Job Hunting

Additional info

The publisher of the How to Be Everything is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062674265.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Katie

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 contact person. My copy, which thank goodness I had the foresight to buy, is bristling like a hedgehog with all the sticky notes I stuck onto passages that resonated with me. I will definitely be referring to this book in the future, and if you think this applies to you at all, please buy it and read it!

Bianca

May 11, 2018

Advanced Reader Copy -  I'm a grown up. There I've said it! You happy, world? I'm a grown up, but I really don't want to be one & really don't know how to be one. I feel like just yesterday I was roaming the halls of my elementary school with my safety patrol sash and harry potter wand tucked in my back pocket. You know what, maybe I did do that yesterday... No no no. Yesterday I did my taxes because I'm a grown up. *insert barf sound* I love this book because it teaches you that adulthood can be fun! You don't have to have a job that you hate. You don't have to stay on one career track. And you don't have to feel guilty when you start a new hobby or project and end up hating it!   This book helps you figure out the answer to the dreaded question "what do you want to be when you grow up." *Spoiler alert* The answer can just be as simple as idk! BUT Wapnick goes deeper than that and gives real advice. She's also incredibly skilled at being inclusive and not making me feel like a loser. Oh, and she includes activities for you to take what she's saying and apply it to your own life.

James

March 24, 2021

All I actually want to say is that I read the book, I loved it, and you should read it.There. I said it. Can I go play outside now?How to Be Everything by Emilie Wapnick is excellent. It struck a chord with me on a deep personal level.I listened to the audiobook whilst traipsing through snow and came back all inspired.Multipotentialites of the world unite!I wrote an article about it here.

Marcia

January 23, 2019

Nog nooit heb ik mezelf terug gezien in een non-fictie boek zoals in Hoe word je alles?. Nog nooit heb ik me zo begrepen gevoeld.In het dagelijks leven heb ik vaak het gevoel me te moeten verantwoorden. Ik wil niet 20 jaar in hetzelfde bedrijf werken en ik hop graag van job naar job. Werken op projectbasis is voor mij ideaal - hetzelfde als een parttime baan. Ik heb namelijk altijd wel wat creatieve projecten lopen en doe veel vrijwilligerswerk. Ik haal energie uit variatie en leer graag nieuwe dingen. Ik word graag uitgedaagd. Ik heb 1001 hobby’s en interesses. Dankzij Hoe word je alles? heb ik ontdekt dat er niks mis met mij is; ik ben een multipotentialist. Ik ga dit boek nog vele keren herlezen en ben ook van plan de verschillende oefeningen te doen. Wie weet kan ik in 2019 van het Einsteinmodel naar het Smeltkroesmodel of het Schuinestreepmodel migreren. Ik kijk er in ieder geval naar uit om de mogelijkheden te onderzoeken. En ik denk dat ik dit boek ook een aantal mensen onder de neus zal duwen..Een uitgebreide recensie volgt.

Sofie

July 04, 2020

Efter en lite seg start gav den här boken så mycket tankar, idéer och uppmuntran. Lättläst, rolig och inspirerande. Rekommenderas starkt till alla som har fler intressen än de hinner med.

L.

July 21, 2017

Thank goodness for this book which provides the "simple" but often-overlooked answer to "What do you want to be when you grow up" -- MORE THAN ONE THING! And, you can do those more than one things at the same time! What a relief. This book was perfect for middle-aged me who is struggling with the idea that I wasn't completely satisfied in my job, yet no other job called to me. I saw a career counselor who showed me appealing options, but I knew those weren't the right fit either. I toyed with the idea of gravitating back toward sexuality education, but knew I didn't want to completely throw myself into that. Huzzah! Enter How to be Everything and I learn it's OK to keep my job (part time, as it is) AND also pursue sex ed stuff. You may be thinking that this is not an exciting revelation, but it sort of is for me. The idea of choosing multiple careers and holding them simultaneously goes against how I was raised and goes against my prior understanding of how careers work. Thinking about having two careers, and having that be the answer to my professional identity, provides me with peace. I no longer feel I should choose or find my "one true calling." I am never going to have one true calling, and that's OK. Please read this book if you aren't sure what you want to be when you "grow up." Read it if you can't decide which fork in the road to take. You are not alone in your confusion and insecurities. It is OK to be many things. Humans are complicated. Embrace all of you.

Melanie

May 08, 2017

I discovered Emilie when I watched her TED talk a couple of years ago. I think this was my first introduction to the fact that there are people like me who are not wired to specialize in one subject, and to the *why*. It is not that we are "flighty" or any of those other adjectives. We are multipotentialites, or 'scanners'. We are interested in many different subjects, often all at the same time. This knowledge, and the ideas and discussions on Emilie's website Puttylike.com, have been a source of insight and a force for change for me personally. Emilie knows her subject very well. If you have struggled with how to deal with the pressures (internal or external) of thinking that you *have to* specialize and that this is the only way to be successful, I think you will find this book very enlightening and very useful.

Matt

December 29, 2022

Some very interesting concepts in this book. The thing I got most from it was permission to just try things and it will be okay.

Natasha

December 17, 2022

Very helpful and affirming for people who have many different interests, hobbies, and pursuits.

Maite

January 13, 2021

Conosco il concetto di persona multipotenziale da prima di questo libro, per cui il suo contenuto non mi ha sconvolta come la prima volta che ne ho sentito parlare, ma di sicuro è stato molto illuminante! Io sono una persona multipotenziale. Ho fatto studi in ambiti che non c’entrano nulla tra di loro, lavoro in settori apparentemente lontanissimi apportando una competenza di base che amo e che ho reso profondamente mia: la comunicazione. Che sia in campo letterario, di informazione, di storytelling, di marketing, poco cambia. Coltivo le mie passioni, sviluppo progetti che non hanno nulla a che vedere l’uno con l’altro, e mi sento pienamente soddisfatta. Quando invece mi hanno offerto un posto fisso, mi sono sentita morire. Per questo ho creato una mia azienda in cui poter far convergere le mie diverse competenze. Quando ero più piccola mi sono sentita dire almeno mille volte: prima o poi dovrai scegliere, prima o poi dovrai iniziare a lavorare sul serio. E se anche a voi è capitato, se anche voi non riuscite a immaginarvi a fare una cosa sola per tutta la vita, allora questo è il libro giusto.Non è vero che i multipotenziali sono persone svogliate, che cercano scuse per non impegnarsi in nulla e restare sempre bambini. Ed è invece vero che in Italia sono ancora considerati professionisti di serie B rispetto agli ultra-specialisti. Invece sono professionisti preziosi esattamente come tutti gli altri, in grado di ottenere risultati straordinari se messi a lavorare nel giusto team. Questo libro ve lo dimostrerà!

Hannah

April 18, 2021

I will admit that I quickly got sick of the term multipotentialite, which I found unwieldy and a bit pretentious, but as someone who's always felt those "I'm into too many things! How do I choose?" feelings and deemed myself flaky and aimless because of them, this book's perspective really was very helpful. There's definitely at least a little bit of a "multipotentialite" in all of us, and most people certainly do have a wide variety of interests, but I do fully agree with the author that our culture caters towards the "specialists" (or at least those who can playact as them). And while specialists are absolutely vital, as someone who is most decidedly a generalist, I appreciate an approach that sees that as something to be used as a strength rather than something to overcome.

Chiara

March 14, 2020

Ok, penso di essere anche io una multipotenziale.Modello Abbraccio di Gruppo.Scritto bene e scorrevole; molto utile per fare chiarezza su come si comporta chi si appassiona (e attiva) tanti progetti contemporaneamente.

Josien

March 13, 2022

Een boek voor mensen die veel verschillende dingen leuk vinden om te doen en het moeilijk vinden om te kiezen. Alle manieren waarop je je leven vorm kan geven als je veel interesses hebt worden omschreven. Veel handige tips. Erg inspirerend!

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