Have you always struggled to answer the question “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
Do you find it hard to describe what you do for a living when someone asks, because you’ve changed careers and professions so many times?
Congrats, it sounds like you are a multipotentialite, which gives you an amazing advantage if you can learn to harness and leverage this unique ability.
“But Tony, what the heck is a multipotentialite?” you ask…
Historically, a mutlipotentialite has been understood as a polymath, a renniasance man (or woman!) who is driven by artistic curiousity, intellect and an encyclopedic knowledge in a number of areas of expertise.
In the industrial age, the role of a specialist is the cultural norm. You are expected to excel in one specialized career path – a master of one instead of a jack of all trades.
But as we enter the digital revolution, stacking skills in a number of areas where your multipotentiality gives you the potential to become a digital polymath.
I define a digital polymath as someone who becomes competent in at least three digital domains and integrates them into a top 1-percent skill set.
For example, let’s say you are competent enough in coding that you can build a website for yourself, you’re also a skilled writer so you are able to sell products to strangers using your written words. You also might not be an expert video editor, but your competency in Adobe Premier makes you more capable than 99% of the population to create video content.
As a digital polymath, you might stack those 3 skills to create a sales funnel, where you can take your ideal customer through a seamless journey from your video content to your sales page where they might purchase a helpful digital product you created, turning your passion into profit!
Having ADHD gives you a massive advantage as a multipotentialite and potential digital polymath. You jump from one interest to another, but not before completely absorbing a superhuman amount of knowledge through intense hyperfocus sessions.
But this means you can also easily get lost in the weeds, chasing fleeting interests with no clear path forward. If you’d like to start your journey to leveraging your unique brain wiring build a dynamic business that you can scale to adapt to your various creative impulses, I’d love to chat with you.