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

The basic idea of a portfolio life is that instead of thinking of your work as a monolithic activity, what if you chose to see it as the complex group of interests, passions, and activities it is? And what if instead of identifying with a job description, you began to see the whole mass of things you do as one portfolio of activity?

Once that one's been taken care of, you can decide which one you want to do next. You don't have to limit yourself to one; you don't have to stay in it forever.

allowing yourself space to breathe • allowing yourself to not be defined by a box that having one job – with a title chosen by someone else – can put you in • having the courage and tools to make big moves on the side, without risking financial stability • giving yourself the confidence to not be defined by one thing