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When I was eleven, I used to think I wanted to be the next Michael Jordan. Until I figured out how uncoordinated I was compared to the athletic kids, and how little confidence I had in my physical abilities on the court.

I had kept myself busy on the playground during recess and lunch every day for years sketching photo-realistic dinosaurs for the girls, and elaborate starships and mechanical contraptions from Star Wars for the boys. My art was basically the vehicle I used to bond and nurture friendships as a child, and as a young teen I thought perhaps I could make a career as a professional artist of some sort, like Dennis Murren.

At one point I thought I wanted to be an archaeologist, then later a fighter pilot (like Top Gun! Seriously.), then a social studies professor, a real estate broker, a Sports Illustrated photographer (swimsuit edition!), a sustainable energy pioneer, even the next Mark Zuckerberg.

I bounced around 17 wildly different jobs in the space of about six years before I walked away from the corporate world and the employee mindset forever. I was never content, and always anxious to keep trying something new. Simply maintaining a decent job didn’t interest me; I wanted to keep searching until I found the exact perfect fit.

Until I realized I wasn’t going to find the perfect “job” — I’d have to create it myself.

Now that I’ve created my own playground, I still want to do a thousand different things — from rock climbing to writing a bestseller, to working with children and the elderly, to making controversial photography and artwork, to running a million-dollar business, to helping coach ambitious people through challenging mental obstacles.

I just had to find a way to bring all my talents together to forge my own path. And chances are, if you’re reading this, you will have to craft your own “dream job” too.

If you still feel like you have no idea what you want to be when you “grow up”, that’s perfectly fine. There’s nothing wrong with you. Give this talk by Emelie Wapnick a view to learn 3 of the most important skills we’ll focus on building here inside the HERO Project:

Emilie Wapnick has been a musician/songwriter, a web designer, filmmaker, writer, law student and entrepreneur. “This is how I’ve always lived,” she writes, “moving from interest to interest, building on my skills in different areas, and synthesizing the knowledge I acquire along the way.”

As a career and life coach, she helps other people with wide and varied interests understand and appreciate who they are, in a society that asks us to pick a lane and stay in it. Her work with “multipotentialites” has resulted in the book Renaissance Business and the interesting website Puttylike.

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