Emilie Wapnick: Why some of us don't have one true calling
Pourquoi certains d'entre nous ne disposent pas d'une véritable vocation: Why some of us don't have one true calling
Career coach Emilie Wapnick celebrates the "multipotentialite" -- those of us with many interests, many jobs over a lifetime, and many interlocking potentials. Full bio
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been asked the question
demandé
quand tu seras grand?''
when you were first asked this question?
question pour la première fois.
à la question
been able to answer the question
that I didn't have any interests --
je n'avais aucun intérêt,
Plus jeune, j'aimais
and math and art and I built websites
du groupe punk
called Frustrated Telephone Operator.
Vous les connaissez sans doute.
l'école secondaire,
to notice this pattern in myself
peu importe de quoi il s'agissait.
at whatever it was,
commence à m'ennuyer.
where I'd start to get bored.
and persist anyway,
so much time and energy
de temps, d'énergie
d'ennui de
this isn't challenging anymore --
plus un défi''
in something else,
Je deviens
and I would dive into that,
''Ca y est j'ai trouvé ma vocation!''
and I'd be like, "Yes! I found my thing,"
sentiment d'ennui
where I'd start to get bored.
complètement différent,
something new and totally different,
any of this into a career.
choisir un seul intérêt,
have to pick one thing,
so much anxiety
j'étais anxieuse
was something wrong with this,
soit anormal,
for being unable to stick with anything.
étant incapable faire un choix.
J'avais peur d'être en train de
or that I was self-sabotaging,
de m'auto-sabotager,
dans cette histoire,
and to these feelings,
une question
a fait croire qu'il était
the meaning of wrong or abnormal
"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
what you say when you're that age.
de notre réponse à cet âge.
posée aux enfants pour avoir
to elicit cute replies,
or "I want to be a ballerina,"
''Je veux être un pirate''
again and again as we get older
les formes possibles.
high school students might get asked
ce qu'ils vont étudier au collège.
to pick in college.
the cute exercise it once was
to dream about what they could be,
amène les enfants à
tard, elle ne les amène pas à rêver à
about all that they could be.
En fait ça a l'effet inverse.
what you want to be,
ce que vous voulez faire,
20 options différentes,
rigoleraient, disant:
will likely chuckle and be like,
a violin maker and a psychologist.
tu dois faire un choix.''
devenue illustratrice,
turned illustrator, entrepreneur,
directrice artistique.
about people like this.
dans notre culture.
or the one true calling,
où nous sommes nés pour faire
notre existence
during our time on this earth,
what that thing is
n'est pas fait ainsi?
who isn't wired this way?
de sujets qui éveillent
subjects that you're curious about,
de faire plusieurs choses?
like you in this framework.
pour les gens
Et tu risques de te sentir seul.
have a purpose.
aucune raison d'être.
quelque chose qui ne va pas avec toi.
there's something wrong with you.
avec beaucoup d'intérêts et de créativité.
with many interests and creative pursuits.
into three parts:
ayant la même connotation,
that connote the same idea,
courante en Renaissance.
c'était même idéal de connaître en
to be well-versed in multiple disciplines.
de disciplines.
étant des ''scanners''.
ou en inventez-en un.
or invent your own.
that as a community,
qu'en tant que communauté,
une seule identité.
that you need to overcome.
se débarasser.
d'écrire sur le sujet via mon site web,
through speaking with people
ideas on my website,
strengths to being this way.
à l'intersection.
at the intersection.
inspirés de leurs
from their shared interests
travel, mathematics and design,
la visualisation de données,
et le design pour créer Meshu.
custom geographically-inspired jewelry.
with this unique idea
pas en dépit de,
mix of skills and experiences.
de compétences.
se met à innover.
Les multipotentialités
with all of their backgrounds,
souvent ces intersections.
points of intersection.
multipotentialités
become interested in something,
à un sujet,
we can get our hands on.
so many times in the past,
de nouvelles choses
of trying new things
souvent utile à
are transferable across disciplines,
ce qu'on apprend à notre nouveau champ
to every new area we pursue,
jamais à zéro.
and freelance writer.
au piano, elle avait une capacité
she honed an incredible ability
sa mémoire procédurale.
très rapide en dactylo.
Nora was a financial planner.
Elle a du apprendre des techniques
the finer mechanics of sales
write compelling pitches to editors.
à se vendre à des éditeurs.
de se consacrer
to pursue something you're drawn to,
même si on finit par l'abandonner.
in a different field entirely,
domaine complètement différent.
have anticipated.
des multipotentialités
into whatever you need to be
sometimes a web designer,
sur Kickstarter, parfois enseignant,
sometimes a teacher,
d'être James Bond.
because he can take on various roles,
identified adaptability
essentielle pour prospérer
to develop in order to thrive
so quickly and unpredictably
ceux ayant la capacité de
and organizations that can pivot
that are really going to thrive.
prospéreront.
and adaptability:
d'apprentissage et l'adaptabilité:
multipotentielalités et trois aptitudes
are very adept at,
if pressured to narrow their focus.
convaincre de limiter leurs intérêts.
les multipotentialités à être eux-mêmes.
in encouraging multipotentialites
problems in the world right now,
et nous avons besoin
out-of-the-box thinkers to tackle them.
hors du commun pour y remédier
in your heart, a specialist.
you wanted to be a pediatric neurosurgeon.
vouliez être neurochirurgien pédiatrique.
vous êtes normaux.
wrong with you, either.
are comprised of a specialist
devrait être formée
and implement ideas,
sujet et génère des idées
a breadth of knowledge to the project.
contribue au projet avec
C'est une combinaison extraordinaire.
lives and careers
de notre type de personnalité.
are largely being encouraged
les multipotentialités se font
à être spécialistes comme les autres.
like their specialist peers.
you take away from this talk,
de cette conférence,
vous êtes connectés.
whatever that may be.
dans cette salle,
who may have just realized
elles veulent vous mener.
down those rabbit holes.
ça vous mène.
votre esprit fonctionne, vous serez
to a happier, more authentic life.
une vie plus authentique.
multipotentialités, le monde à besoin de nous.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Emilie Wapnick - Writer, coach, artist ...Career coach Emilie Wapnick celebrates the "multipotentialite" -- those of us with many interests, many jobs over a lifetime, and many interlocking potentials.
Why you should listen
Emilie Wapnick has been a musician/songwriter, a web designer, filmmaker, writer, law student and entrepreneur. "This is how I’ve always lived," she writes, "moving from interest to interest, building on my skills in different areas, and synthesizing the knowledge I acquire along the way."
As a career and life coach, she helps other people with wide and varied interests understand and appreciate who they are, in a society that asks us to pick a lane and stay in it. Her work with "multipotentialites" has resulted in the book Renaissance Business and the interesting website Puttylike.
Wapnick's new book, How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up, is due out in May 2017.
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