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Exercise30 minOccupationalRationality

Career planning

Paint where you want to be professionally in three years, see the gap to today, and break it down into three steps you can start on now.

The path

How it works

  1. Paint three years aheadWrite
  2. Map the gapList
  3. Break it down into stepsList
  4. Start nowChooseWrite
Good career planning doesn't start with what is possible, but with what you want. Be concrete: not "something meaningful" but an ordinary Tuesday. What do you do, with whom, how does it feel?

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The evidence

Why does it work?

Concrete goals and if-then plans (implementation intentions) clearly increase the chance that you actually do what you set out to do. Source: Gollwitzer & Sheeran, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (2006).

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