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1 " I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. "
― Emilie Wapnick , How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up
2 " you don't need to justify your choices to anyone. What would your life be like if you gave yourself permission to be everything you wanted to be? "
3 " Your career should be aligned with your overall goals. Your work should feel like an integrated and supportive force in your life, not the kind-of-awful-thing-you-have-to-do-to-pay-the-bills. "
4 " The truth is that you aren’t lacking a destiny or purpose. There is a very good reason for your insatiable curiosity: you’re someone who’s going to shake things up, create something novel, solve complex, multidimensional problems, make people’s lives better in your own unique way. Whatever your destinies are, you can’t step into them while stifling your multipotentiality. You must embrace it and use it. "
5 " Waiting for the inspiration to hit is often just resistance in disguise. "
6 " Multipotentialites don't quit when something becomes too hard; we quit because something becomes too easy. "
7 " Multipotentialites tend to struggle with three main areas: work, productivity, and self-esteem. "
8 " Multipotentialites often invite too much variety into our lives by overbooking ourselves. We have an intense desire to learn and experience new things. "
9 " What would your life be like if you gave yourself permission to be everything you wanted to be? "
10 " It was not only okay to be my weird self, leading with my uniqueness might actually be the key to my success. "
11 " The more you allow yourself to explore, draw connections between different ideas, dream up big projects, and collaborate with others, the stronger your superpowers will become. You might even discover that you have a few more! "
12 " You are not what you do. Changes don't have to shatter your sense of identity. "
13 " A specialized life is portrayed as the only path to success, and it’s highly romanticized in our culture. We’ve "
14 " Sometimes you just need to find your people. "
15 " a mind-set that embraces instability, that tolerates—and even enjoys—recalibrating careers, business models and assumptions. "
16 " They had all designed lives that provided them with three common elements: money, meaning, and variety—in the amounts that were right for them. "
17 " When you’re picking a project to pursue, try not to think of it as some massive commitment. Can you think of it as an exploration, as something you’re trying out? Approach your interests with a sense of curiosity and wonder, and remember to have fun! "
18 " bored, frustrated, and upset that we aren’t able to express the breadth of who we are. With too much variety, we become overwhelmed and frustrated because we aren’t making as much progress as we would like. "
19 " What happens if you don’t fit into this framework? Let’s say you’re curious about several subjects, and there are many things you’d like to do with your life. If "
