Emilie Wapnick: Why some of us don't have one true calling
エミリー・ワプニック: 天職が見つからない人がいるのはどうしてでしょう?
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
手を挙げてください
when you were first asked this question?
何歳でしたか?
一度も答えられなかった人です
been able to answer the question
that I didn't have any interests --
and math and art and I built websites
ウェブサイトも作りました
called Frustrated Telephone Operator.
パンクバンドでギターも弾きました
to notice this pattern in myself
at whatever it was,
where I'd start to get bored.
and persist anyway,
so much time and energy
this isn't challenging anymore --
チャレンジする程の事でもない
in something else,
and I would dive into that,
飛び込んで
and I'd be like, "Yes! I found my thing,"
「見つけた これだ」と感じると
where I'd start to get bored.
something new and totally different,
any of this into a career.
結び付けられるか
have to pick one thing,
観念せざるを得ないのか
so much anxiety
was something wrong with this,
for being unable to stick with anything.
心配になったのです
or that I was self-sabotaging,
自分の成功を恐れ
and to these feelings,
the meaning of wrong or abnormal
普通じゃないと
"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
最初に聞かれたのは
what you say when you're that age.
気にしていません
無邪気な返事を引き出す
to elicit cute replies,
みなされています
or "I want to be a ballerina,"
「バレリーナ」
again and again as we get older
何度も繰り返されます
high school students might get asked
to pick in college.
the cute exercise it once was
to dream about what they could be,
子供達が夢を持つ事を奨励しますが
about all that they could be.
勧めていません
what you want to be,
いかないからです
will likely chuckle and be like,
クスクス笑って こう言うでしょう
a violin maker and a psychologist.
心理学者にはなれないよ
turned illustrator, entrepreneur,
雑誌編集者からイラストレーター
兼クリエイティブ・ディレクターに転向
about people like this.
こういう人たちの事を耳にしません
or the one true calling,
during our time on this earth,
what that thing is
who isn't wired this way?
生まれてこなかったらどうでしょう
subjects that you're curious about,
like you in this framework.
あなたは当てはまりません
have a purpose.
there's something wrong with you.
with many interests and creative pursuits.
多くに興味を持ち創造を追求する人です
into three parts:
発音しやすいです
that connote the same idea,
言い換えても構いません
to be well-versed in multiple disciplines.
理想的とされたのです
スキャナーと称しました
or invent your own.
新しい単語を作っても結構です
that as a community,
不可能なんです
that you need to overcome.
言われるかもしれません
through speaking with people
多くの人と話をしたり
ideas on my website,
学んだ事は
strengths to being this way.
相当な強みがあるという事です
at the intersection.
新しい何かを創造する事です
from their shared interests
共通の趣味である
travel, mathematics and design,
旅行、 数学、 デザインから
custom geographically-inspired jewelry.
オーダーメイドで作っています
with this unique idea
このユニークなアイデアにたどり着いたのは
mix of skills and experiences.
「にもかかわらず」ではなく「だからこそ」なのです
with all of their backgrounds,
マルチ・ポテンシャライトは
points of intersection.
容易にアクセスできるのです
become interested in something,
we can get our hands on.
so many times in the past,
of trying new things
怖がりません
are transferable across disciplines,
違った分野でも応用でき
to every new area we pursue,
新しい分野に持ち込むので
ほとんどありません
and freelance writer.
フリーランス作家でもあります
she honed an incredible ability
能力を磨き上げました
最速のタイピストです
Nora was a financial planner.
the finer mechanics of sales
セールスの手法を学ばねばならず
write compelling pitches to editors.
編集者にアピールするのに役立っています
to pursue something you're drawn to,
時間の無駄になる事は滅多になく
in a different field entirely,
have anticipated.
応用できるのです
into whatever you need to be
sometimes a web designer,
ウェブデザイナー
sometimes a teacher,
時に先生
貴重な存在ですが
because he can take on various roles,
顧客のニーズに合わせて
identified adaptability
適応力を
to develop in order to thrive
so quickly and unpredictably
and organizations that can pivot
個人や組織こそが
that are really going to thrive.
満たすことができるのです
and adaptability:
適応力の3つは
are very adept at,
得意とする所であり
if pressured to narrow their focus.
失いかねない技能です
in encouraging multipotentialites
ありのままの姿を大事にするのは
もっともな理由があるからです
problems in the world right now,
複雑で多次元的な問題に取り組むには
out-of-the-box thinkers to tackle them.
必要なのです
in your heart, a specialist.
you wanted to be a pediatric neurosurgeon.
決めたとします
wrong with you, either.
何もおかしくないですよ
are comprised of a specialist
ペアです
and implement ideas,
実行段階に移し
a breadth of knowledge to the project.
幅広い知識を持ち込む
lives and careers
それぞれの個性に応じて
are largely being encouraged
マルチ・ポテンシャライトは多くの場合
like their specialist peers.
you take away from this talk,
whatever that may be.
マルチ・ポテンシャライトの皆さん
who may have just realized
down those rabbit holes.
to a happier, more authentic life.
幸せな本物の人生につながります
世界が私たちを必要としています
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.
Emilie Wapnick | Speaker | TED.com