What is life all about?
What’s your five-year plan? Your ten-year plan?
If you’re anything like me, your answer is probably something along the lines of “I have no idea.”
And just being asked that question makes you feel inadequate. Like you’re always supposed to know what the future will hold.
In his powerful book, How Will You Measure Your Life? , Clayton Christensen reflects that so many of his students at Harvard Business School feel they should always be able to answer “What is life all about?”
They expect to have their whole lives mapped out — and if they don’t, something is wrong with them.
Via How Will You Measure Your Life?:
Starting as early as high school, they think that to be successful they need to have a concrete vision of exactly what it is they want to do with their lives. Underlying this belief…