Become Who You Are: How to Find the Right Job for You - Books for the Mind

"Becoming Who You Are" is a helpful book if you're wondering how to find the right job for you, but you don't want to limit yourself to just one passion. Author Emilie Wapnick offers a practical method for "multipotential" people—those with many interests and passions but unsure how to reconcile them in today's working world. Two hundred pages to understand how to make different vocations coexist and make the most of them. Here are three insights this rich book has given me: 1:10 1) The myth of the one true vocation: in a world that pushes you to focus on a single specialization, it's helpful to understand that you're not necessarily wrong if you feel like cultivating multiple passions. 3:20 2) The "right" path for you: there's no predefined life direction that works for everyone; you have to find your own. A non-linear path could hide the advantage of making you a professional with unique skills compared to your competitors. 6:17 3) When to change jobs: On a scale of 1 to 10, where at 1 you love your job and at 10 you feel physically ill at the thought of going there, consider a change if you find yourself between steps 5 and 8. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to find ideas for navigating the world of work with more confidence and determination, or to anyone who is simply looking for tips for better planning their future. USEFUL LINKS: To purchase the book "Becoming Who You Are" by Emilie Wapnick, here's the link: https://amzn.to/2SkcLaX #potential #psychology #booksforthemind --- "The book "Becoming Who You Are" by Emilie Wapnick is a practical guide for people with multiple interests and passions, helping them reconcile them in today's work environment. The author has introduced the idea of the "multi-potential person," meaning those individuals who have multiple interests and projects. This book helps us organize the various parts of our lives, which may seem inconsistent, but in reality, in some cases, follow a very interesting and precise common thread. Let's get to the three things I took away from reading this book: 1) The myth of the one true calling. The idea promoted by society today is that if you're doing many things, it means you're mediocre in everything, and that instead you should focus on a single area and become very good at it. But that's not the only way. You can achieve excellent results in a field even if you don't have equally excellent skills, but it's simply better to have sufficient knowledge, combined with passion and a desire to do it. 2) There's no right life path for everyone; you have to find the one that's right for you. In particular, the book shows how some people are very comfortable with certain vertical life paths, such as: you study to become an engineer and you become an engineer, or you study at the conservatory to become a musician. There's a linearity between the starting point of your career and the destination. Not everyone, however, is comfortable with this clean trajectory. And these people are precisely the multi-potential people, who need to follow a non-linear, vertical, but transversal path. The more you delve into other directions, the more you learn new skills. There's no linearity, but a wandering that in reality is only apparent. Random. These are precisely the movements that have allowed me to acquire very different skills and that make me unique in today's work environment. This is the power of multi-potentials, which I think is described very clearly in this book, which is also a very practical book, with many exercises. 3) When it's time to change jobs, or to start planning a new job alongside your current one. The tool in question is the aversion scale. Imagine having a scale at your disposal, graduated—like a ruler—that goes from 1 to 10. 1 is when you love your job and everything seems fantastic, while 10 is the level where you just can't take it anymore, you want to run away. According to Wapnick, the best time to change jobs is when you're between rungs 5 and 8 on this scale. If you wait until you're at rungs 9 or 10 to make a decision, you'll already be done for, and therefore you won't have the mental clarity to choose correctly and also to say goodbye to your old employer in the most correct and appropriate way."