240 pages |Paperback

A modern, practical guide for creative people with multiple passions and interests (hint: you dont have to pick just one)

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Its a familiar question were all asked as kids. While seemingly harmless, it 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 dont.

Having a lot of different interests, projects, and curiosities doesnt make you a jack-of-all trades, master of none. Your endless curiosity doesnt 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 Everythinghelps you channel your diverse passions and skills to work for you. Drawing on her popular TED talkWhy Some of Us Dont 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.

Youll discover:

• How to identify the best career fit for your unique personality
• How to make a living and structure your work around many interests, especially in todays uncertain job market
• How to focus on multiple projects and make progress on all of them
• How to handle common insecurities, including 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 Everythingteaches you how to design a lifeat any age and stage of your careerthat allows you to be fully you and find the kind of work youll love.