Embrace your inner wiring, whatever that may be, and that is the quote of the day.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and

dot com. Today we are kicking off a short series of talks about how to figure out what you

want to do for a living. And today's feature speaker is Emily Wapnik. And I love what

she's talking about here because when we're trying to decide what we want to do for a living,

it can be really challenging if we have so many different passions, which are in different

fields. And what Emily shows you today is how to look at those differently, how to not

look at those as something that's holding you back because you're into so many different

things, but how they can become your superpower. Here's Emily.

The notion of the narrowly focused life is highly romanticized in our culture. It's

this idea of destiny or the one true calling. The idea that we each have one great thing

we are meant to do during our time on this earth. And you need to figure out what that

thing is and devote your life to it. But what if you're someone who isn't wired this

way? What if there are a lot of different subjects that you're curious about and many

different things you want to do? Well, there is no room for someone like you in this

framework. And so you might feel alone. You might feel like you don't have a purpose.

You might feel like there's something wrong with you. There's nothing wrong with you. What

you are is a multi-potentialite. A multi-potentialite is someone with many interests and creative

pursuits. It's a mouthful to say. It might help if you break it up into three parts. Multi-potential

andite. You can also use one of the other terms that can note the same idea, such as the

polymath, the Renaissance person. Actually, during the Renaissance period, it was considered

the ideal to be well versed in multiple disciplines. Barbara Shere refers to us as scanners. Use whichever

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