Emilie Wapnick: Why some of us don't have one true calling
艾米丽·瓦普尼克: 为什么有些人总是找不到命中注定的职业
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
when you were first asked this question?
been able to answer the question
that I didn't have any interests --
and math and art and I built websites
数学和艺术,建过网站
called Frustrated Telephone Operator.
的朋克乐队当吉他手。
to notice this pattern in myself
at whatever it was,
where I'd start to get bored.
我就会开始觉得无聊。
and persist anyway,
so much time and energy
this isn't challenging anymore --
已经没有任何挑战了,
in something else,
and I would dive into that,
我又会一头扎进去,
and I'd be like, "Yes! I found my thing,"
“太棒了!这就是我的菜!”
where I'd start to get bored.
开始觉得无聊。
something new and totally different,
any of this into a career.
have to pick one thing,
(这些兴趣)里面挑一个,
so much anxiety
was something wrong with this,
for being unable to stick with anything.
or that I was self-sabotaging,
and to these feelings,
the meaning of wrong or abnormal
我们的所作所为
"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
what you say when you're that age.
没有人会真的关心你说了什么。
to elicit cute replies,
or "I want to be a ballerina,"
或者“我想当芭蕾舞演员”,
again and again as we get older
成长的过程中会不断被问到
high school students might get asked
to pick in college.
the cute exercise it once was
to dream about what they could be,
想象自己将来要做什么,
about all that they could be.
what you want to be,
will likely chuckle and be like,
a violin maker and a psychologist.
同时成为小提琴制作家和心理学家啊。
turned illustrator, entrepreneur,
后来成为插画作家,企业家
about people like this.
or the one true calling,
“命中注定的职业”的概念,
during our time on this earth,
what that thing is
who isn't wired this way?
subjects that you're curious about,
like you in this framework.
have a purpose.
there's something wrong with you.
with many interests and creative pursuits.
into three parts:
that connote the same idea,
to be well-versed in multiple disciplines.
or invent your own.
或者创造一个新的。
that as a community,
that you need to overcome.
through speaking with people
ideas on my website,
strengths to being this way.
at the intersection.
from their shared interests
找到了共同的兴趣爱好,
travel, mathematics and design,
custom geographically-inspired jewelry.
专门制作具有地域特色的珠宝。
with this unique idea
mix of skills and experiences.
with all of their backgrounds,
points of intersection.
become interested in something,
we can get our hands on.
so many times in the past,
of trying new things
are transferable across disciplines,
to every new area we pursue,
and freelance writer.
she honed an incredible ability
她磨练出了非凡的能力
Nora was a financial planner.
the finer mechanics of sales
write compelling pitches to editors.
给编辑写精彩的推荐语。
to pursue something you're drawn to,
in a different field entirely,
用在一个完全不同的领域,
have anticipated.
into whatever you need to be
你能变成任何角色,
sometimes a web designer,
有时候是网站设计师,
sometimes a teacher,
有时候是老师,
because he can take on various roles,
identified adaptability
to develop in order to thrive
so quickly and unpredictably
and organizations that can pivot
that are really going to thrive.
and adaptability:
are very adept at,
if pressured to narrow their focus.
这三种能力也许就会丧失。
in encouraging multipotentialites
problems in the world right now,
out-of-the-box thinkers to tackle them.
思想者来解决这些问题。
in your heart, a specialist.
you wanted to be a pediatric neurosurgeon.
你想当一名儿童神经外科医生。
wrong with you, either.
are comprised of a specialist
and implement ideas,
a breadth of knowledge to the project.
带来更广泛的知识支持。
lives and careers
are largely being encouraged
like their specialist peers.
you take away from this talk,
whatever that may be.
who may have just realized
down those rabbit holes.
to a happier, more authentic life.
去过更快乐、更真实的人生。
这个世界需要我们。
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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