Are You Blurring the Line between Work and Play?

This one is for the self-employed multipotentialites. Have you found that the line between your personal and business passions is so blurred that it’s pretty much non-existent most of the time? With a job you get to “go to work” and then “come home” from work and leave that part of yourself behind at the […]

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How to Cope with Overwhelm

Put your hands up if you’ve ever had a bad case of overwhelm. (I bet there’s a great big sea of hands waving back at me right about now.) Being a multipotentialite is like being the plate spinner at the circus. We have so many projects on the go at the same time and we try not to […]

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How To Curate Your Experiences and Organize Your Life

Do you have two dozen tabs open right now on your browser? (Don’t lie.) Wouldn’t it be nice to have a way to capture and sort through all of your interesting research, articles and experiences? I recently got the chance to speak with creator of Value of Simple and longtime puttypeep, Joel Zaslofsky about his new […]

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Why You Should Track Your Small Wins

We’re so good at seeing all of the places we’ve fallen short, the work that didn’t get done and the things that went wrong in our day. We’re far less good at noticing what did work. We’re sometimes even downright afraid to take stock of our wins for fear that appreciating them might in itself make […]

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Ever Feel like You’re Not Making Any Progress?

You know the scenario. You’ve been working away on your book, website, business and various other projects for months and yet, it never feels like you’ve gotten anywhere with any of them. In practical terms, having multiple projects on the go requires you to divide your time between them. It’s a mathematical fact that you’ll […]

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How to Learn Anything… FAST! A Conversation with Author, Josh Kaufman

How many hours does it take to learn a new skill? Conventional wisdom (and Malcolm Gladwell) would have you believe that it takes a long time to get good at an area. Something like 10,000 hours? About a year ago, I walked into a workshop about “fast skill acquisition” at WDS. As I entered the […]

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A Letter to My Readers and Friends…

Dear Multipotentialites, Two and a half years ago, I launched Puttylike. At the time, I had no idea whether this information would be of interest to anybody. I didn’t know any other multipotentialites in my life. That word didn’t even exist back then. The only words I knew that might refer to our type were […]

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Multipotentiality Doesn’t Mean Multitasking

Editor’s Note: this is a guest post by Sarah Bates. When you tell people you’re a multipotentialite, do you ever get this reaction? “Oh, but how could you get all of those tasks done at once?” For a long time I thought it was impossible to be a multipotentialite, because the idea of doing more […]

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