I recently discovered a website created by an American girl who has redefined the concept of "be a bad seat ass". The girl in question is called Emilie Wapnick and she uses the word "multipotential" (multipotentialite in English) to describe a type of people with a multitude of interests.
Another example of a multipotential person is Pau Ninja who divides multipotentials into sequential (squeeze one interest and jump to another) or simultaneous (they develop several interests at the same time).
Wow, I had always thought that I was a bad seat ass and now I discover that I am multipotential. In English there are always more elegant ways of saying the same thing. Jokes aside, the concept has been curious to me since it tries to put a label on people who flee from them.
In the field of biology, a multipotential cell It is the one from which a multitude of cells with different functions can be born. They are also popularly known as mother cells. In the same way, multipotential people have a multitude of interests. varied and interdisciplinary. Come on, they have nothing to do with each other. These people could become dedicated to anything because they have not yet made a decision about it. This is best explained with the following sentence taken directly from the page:
"You wonder why you are still determined to paint if you have not yet managed to sell any paintings. You wonder why your vocation for psychology has disappeared and suddenly you see yourself writing your first novel when you actually studied architecture.. The answer is simple: you are multipotential ".
Does any of this sound familiar to you? Me. In his day I studied Advertising and Public Relations. I ended up working in Online Marketing and graphic design in a Real Estate Group. I also study psychology and ... I don't know what will come next.
In the words of Emilie Wapnick ... "Suddenly everything makes sense. There is nothing weird about you. It is also not that you are afraid of your own success. The reason you cannot find your true vocation is that you actually have many vocations.. All your sporadic obsessions and your weird interdisciplinary projects fit together now. "
I believe that when we are children we are all multipotential. However, little by little, adults are impressing on us the need to choose a label. Phrases like What are you going to be when you grow up? and then later What do you want to do? they teach us that the normal thing is to end up finding our label.
It is clear that at some point in our lives we have to make a decision and focus our way to a certain place if we want to. find our place in society. Still I wonder if it is possible to find that site without the need to use a tag. It seems difficult to do so. If you studied accounting, you are an accountant. If you studied medicine, you are a doctor. I studied advertising and I like to say that I work in advertising, not that I am a publicist. It is also true that labels are a communicative saving way. It is not a matter of telling your life to every person you come across.
Semantic-grammatical issues aside, we have learned the need to define ourselves with a label. This label makes us feel safer, like an anchor firmly grasped at the bottom of the sea that prevents our ship from moving before the continuous waves of life.
This label also gives security to the people around us. It seems like the people in our close circle too they feel the need to catalog us somehow. They need to know what we do. What do we do. In the same way that we also need to know what they do. If we do not have this information, it is as if there is a lagoon in the mental image that we have formed about these people.
It is obvious that the labels fulfill a useful and instrumental function from the communicative point of view. But leaving aside this function, we must flee from the imperative need to find our label to finally discover the meaning of our lives..
What if you haven't found your tag yet? Is your life meaningless? Not finding the answer to such questions can lead to anxiety. Tags are important, but not essential.
The author says that we visualize multipotentiality as a gift that has been given to us. This gift brings with it 3 challenges that each person has to solve individually:
1. Race: The varied group of interests must come to be constituted in a way that allows you to earn a living.
2. Productivity: You must find the midpoint of productivity with which you can continue to maintain all your interests without losing the focus of attention.
3. Trust: You must feel confident enough to continue developing what you are doing. You must also have the confidence to deal with those who do not quite understand it..
Personally the concept "multipotential" It has given me some peace of mind to see that there are more people like me out there. However, it is not gold everything that shines. Money does not fall from the sky and sooner or later we have to make a decision and choose what our path will be. I think it is easier to find this path if we accept that we are normal and ordinary people with a great deal of restlessness and varied interests. Definitely, we are multipotential.
And you? Are you multipotential?
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