Are you multipotential? 3 ways to follow your path to be happy

For many people, being multipotential is a complicated balancing exercise between what others expect of them and what they really want to do. Society demands that they be responsible and have a stable job, while it is much more stimulating for them to study, deepen and work, throughout their lives, in very varied fields.

Many of these people, faced with pressure from family, friends and colleagues, end up enduring jobs that do not satisfy them. Some, over time, end up falling into a depression, for letting themselves be carried away, more by external messages, than by their own intuition.

Precisely, speaking, in my office, on this subject with Sonia, the question arose of how to be happy in this society, being a multipotential person. Is it possible to reconcile foreign demands with one’s own interests in order to succeed?

A first step we took was to reformulate the question. It is not about “winning” in the traditional sense, but about changing the rules. A multipotential will not feel comfortable working all his life in the same company, even if this ensures a good job and a good salary.

Sonia’s case helps us to understand how multipotential people can create their particular path and Develop your own way of earning a living.

1. Change jobs to seek new challenges

It is usual that, throughout their lives, multipotentials go through several jobs. These people prefer, rather than stay in their old position, switch from one company to another or create your own business, If this is a new challenge for you. They don’t even care about losing part of their salary in the change.

Sonia, for example, studied architecture because she liked the artistic and creative part of that world, but her work had become so monotonous that she was locked in an office during the 8-hour working day.

When her son was born, she left her job for a while and, by the time she went for a consultation, he was rethinking going back to workbut she was not excited to resume her old job as an architect.

2. Combine learning to explore possibilities

No learning is useless. All the subjects we study and in which we deepen, throughout life, They are part of our baggage and can be very useful in the future. There is no need to be afraid of experimenting and learning new things, as you can always combine it with the old to create new possibilities.

During her first years of motherhood, Sonia resumed a hobby that she had abandoned in her childhood, ceramics. He always liked playing with mud; She loved to create things with her hands (plates, glasses, spoons, etc.), let them dry and be able to use them later, but, as a teenager, Sonia had to focus on her studies because, according to her family, playing with mud was not a profit activity.

Several decades later, watching his son play with clay and plasticine, he resumed his old passion, but this time he approached it in a more professional way. She even bought a special oven to bake her creations.

Using what he learned from his other passions (architecture and drawing), he began to create plates and pots decorated with his drawings of buildings, bridges, and landscapes. He had a very new and personal style that was very popular on social networks. Soon after, he began selling his creations to friends and neighbors. The petitions spread, and Sonia began to attend orders from different parts of the country and abroad.

3. Trust your own intuition and demand respect

A key step to be able to fully experience multipotentiality is Trust your intuition and the passion that arises at every moment. If a subject attracts you, study and delve into it, to be able to squeeze it and get the most out of it. Maybe, after a while, you start to get interested in another activity and it becomes your new passion, or maybe you combine several hobbies at the same time.

For sure, rYou will be criticized for not following the traditional path of having a stable job for life. In front of these people demands respect. Just as you respect their point of view, they should also respect yours.