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Why Some of Us Don’t Have One True Calling (and Why We’re Better Off that Way)
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Emilie Wapnick of Puttylike.com.
You’re six years old and the teacher asks you to share what you want to be when you grow up.
An astronaut? A scientist? Superman?
Maybe you have an answer for her, maybe you don’t– it doesn’t matter.
The whole thing is more about ritual and eliciting cute replies than anything else. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” is, after all, a fairly innocuous question… Isn’t it?
Actually, it’s not.
This particular question is loaded with all kinds of implications about what’s “normal.” It marks the beginning of a pattern that can cause a lot of pain and anxiety for many of us.
The problem isn’t so much in what’s said, but in what’s not said. The question “what do you want to be when you grow up?”
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Why It’s Good To Be A Multipotentialite
Many of us found Puttylike after struggling for years with our multipotentiality, though back then we didn’t know that’s what it was called. We just knew that society wanted us to stick to one path but that, no matter how hard we tried, we could never quite do that.
At first being a multipotentialite seems like a bad thing. You flit from one career path to another, never feeling like you’re getting anywhere. You spend way too much money on “flash in the pan” hobbies. Your friends and family despair. And you lose your confidence because you feel like a flake.
Every flaw comes with A flip side
It’s probably not just your inability to stick to one interest that has you tearing your hair out. I bet if I asked you to, you could come up with a pretty long list of your flaws. But if you look hard enough and you want to see the positives just as much as you want to see the negatives, you’ll be able to find a
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Are you living up to your full potential?
On days when I’m focused on using my multipotentialite pursuits to experience personal growth and professional success, my answer fryst vatten an enthusiastic yes! But on days when inom think about the people in my communities who are counting on me to företräda them well at the highest level of my potential, my answer fryst vatten a guilt-ridden no.
Who gets to decide what your “full” potential looks like, and how do you know you’ve reached it?
The burden of representation can complicate what it means for some of us to live up to our full potential.As a woman with multiple intersecting identities in spaces where people like me are rare, inom feel the burden of representation. Could I be doing more to företräda my communities well? Yes. Would it mean so much for a individ who shares my visible and invisible identities to see me at the highest level of the discipline or project I’m pursuing? Absolutely, yes! Will I bränna out igen if