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[12:29] Why Multi-Potentialites Struggle to Find Their 'Destined Career'

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This article uses selected TED talks to explore why multi-potentialites often struggle to find their destined career, encouraging them to embrace their diverse interests and strengths for a more authentic and fulfilling life.

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Selected 100 classic TED talks, lasting 8-15 minutes each, covering innovation, personal growth, and future trends. Provides MP3 streaming, downloads, and English transcripts to help improve listening and speaking skills. Ignite your learning passion with the power of ideas! Below is the content of this issue's 【TED】 100 classic talk listening materials collection. Persist in accumulation, and make your English closer to real life!

As a society, we have a vested interest in encouraging multi-potentialites to be themselves. We have a lot of complex, multi-dimensional problems in the world right now, and we need creative out-of-the-box thinkers to tackle them. Now, let's say that you are in your heart a specialist. You came out of the womb knowing you wanted to be a pediatric neurosurgeon. Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with you either. In fact, some of the best teams are comprised of a specialist and multi-potentialite paired together. The specialist can dive in deep and implement ideas while the multi-potentialite brings their breadth of knowledge to the project. It's a beautiful partnership. But we should all be designing lives and careers that are aligned with how we are wired. And sadly, multi-potentialites are largely being encouraged simply to be more like their specialist peers. So with that said, if there's one thing you take away from this talk, I hope that it is this. Embrace your inner wiring, whatever that may be. If you're a specialist at heart, then by all means specialize. That is real to your best work. But to the multi-potentialites in the room, including those of you who may have just realized in the last 12 minutes that you are one. To you, I say, embrace your many passions. Follow your curiosity down those rabbit holes. Explore your intersections. Embracing our inner wiring leads to a happier, more authentic life. And perhaps more importantly, multi-potentialites. The world needs us. Thank you. Thank you.

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  • anxiety

    noun

    1. a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune

    2. (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic

    Synonym: anxiousness

  • intersection

    noun

    1. the act of intersecting (as joining by causing your path to intersect your target's path)

    2. a junction where one street or road crosses another

    Synonym: crossroadcrosswaycrossingcarrefour

    3. a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena

    e.g. there was no overlap between their proposals

    Synonym: overlapconvergence

    4. a point where lines intersect

    Synonym: intersection pointpoint of intersection

    5. the set of elements common to two or more sets

    e.g. the set of red hats is the intersection of the set of hats and the set of red things

    Synonym: productCartesian product

    6. a point or set of points common to two or more geometric configurations

  • specialist

    noun

    1. an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning

    Synonym: specializerspecialiser

    2. practices one branch of medicine

    Synonym: medical specialist

  • innocuous

    adj

    1. lacking intent or capacity to injure

    e.g. an innocent prank

    Synonym: innocent

    2. not injurious to physical or mental health

    3. not causing disapproval

    e.g. it was an innocuous remark
    confined himself to innocuous generalities
    unobjectionable behavior

    Synonym: unobjectionable

  • transferable

    adj

    1. legally transferable to the ownership of another

    e.g. negotiable bonds

    Synonym: assignableconveyablenegotiabletransferrable

    2. capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another

    Synonym: movablemoveabletransferrabletransportable

  • narrowly

    adv

    1. in a narrow manner
    not allowing for exceptions

    e.g. he interprets the law narrowly