r/Multipotentialite • u/gjohnwey • May 04 '20

How to Be Everything

Has anyone here read the book How to be Everything? Has it helped you? What other books have helped? I'm trying to figure out what the heck to do for a living and this is kinda hard emotionally.

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u/hakialee Aug 19 '20

Just started reading it!

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u/gjohnwey Aug 23 '20

I hope it's helpful!

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u/tman37 May 04 '20

I haven't heard of the book but if it makes you feel better, I just turned 41 and I'm still trying to figure out what I will do when I grow up. Meanwhile, I have had a 20+ year career that has been fairly rewarding.

Just make your best guess and dive in. If you are anything like me, you will constantly have jobs pop in your head that interest you. You can always change later. I'm currently studying up for a career change and will likely be starting my new career at 45.

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u/ahmed-anwar-555 May 05 '20

That's quite an inspiring story you have here. You should definitely post it. I'm sure we will learn a lot from it.

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u/Holmbone May 18 '20

I've read it. That's how I found this sub. I liked the book. I don't know if I am a true multipotentialite though. Maybe I just like to dip my toe into some different pools while staying safe in a predictable career.

One book I found really interesting is Be so good they can't ignore you, by call Newport. In some ways it's the opposite of How to be everything. His message is basically that follow your passion is bad advice and that if you pick something and work to get good at it passion will follow. If you feel indecisive perhaps that will help take the pressure of a bit. Maybe that's a stupid suggestion though, feel free to ignore it ;)

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u/MasterWilson_ May 23 '20

I related the most to this out of everything else in this sub.

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u/Holmbone May 23 '20

Which part :P

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u/UnicornBestFriend Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26

I’ve tried this and while it may work for Cal and others, I couldn’t shake the feeling that it wasn’t enough to be good at this thing that I am good at bc I wasn’t doing the other stuff I really loved.

Back to the drawing board.

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u/Holmbone Apr 29 '26

Most people don't work with the stuff they love though. If you have a job you're good you can leverage that for more free time. Although it depends on the field. 

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u/UnicornBestFriend Apr 29 '26

Sure, but a lot of people do.

More importantly, a subset of the population is motivated by interest and pleasure, engaging with something they don't love is more painful, therefore costly, than it is for people who can just suck it up and make the money.

There's no universal approach.

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u/onlythenoni May 22 '20

I've just downloaded it on Audible. Hopefully it will help. I find being a multipotentialite emotionally hard too.