The Multi-Hyphen Method: The Sunday Times business bestseller

Social media, publishing, activism and building our own entrepreneurial empires online come from a place of caring about the future. Because the gatekeepers have changed, and in some cases crumbled, we don’t need a traditional publishing deal to have our voices heard.

The future looks unpredictable, so how can we pretend that sitting at a nine-to-five desk is stable or secure? We are all entrepreneurs now. The very meaning and idea of what an entrepreneur is has changed (it’s not just people in Silicon Valley, it’s you, it’s me, it’s anyone sat at their kitchen table

I believe deep down we are all entrepreneurial.

An article in Quartz said that ‘Millennials didn’t invent the second job, they just branded it.’11 People have always had multiple jobs, but the millennial generation, who are mostly told ‘You can be whatever you want to be!’ are freaked out by the hierarchy and the slow pace of the workplace and are using side-hustles to get ahead.

this generation are full of ideas, always building on them and in constant connection.

Bloomberg recently revealed that once you are over thirty-five you’re more likely to hate your job.

there’s a much deeper reason behind not being able to commit to one job and it’s nothing to do with the fear of hard work. It’s to do with the fact that the world is currently changing at breakneck speed. Millennials are adapting and taking advantage of their niche set of skills. Maybe the confidence in taking risks in their working lives is becaus

you have to become good at one thing, and then another thing, and figure out where those two skills intersect to add more value to your company.4

Another good exercise is to write down a list of things that maybe look good on paper, but don’t matter so much to you personally. Write the list and then physically draw a line through each one.