How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up

What do you want to be when you grow up? It's a familiar question we're all asked as kids. While seemingly harmless, the question has unintended consequences. It can make you feel like you need to choose one job, one passion, one thing to be about. Guess what? You don't.

Having a lot of different interests, projects and curiosities doesn't make you a "jack—of—all—trades, master of none." Your endless curiosity doesn't mean you are broken or flaky. What you are is a multipotentialite: someon...