Would you want to watch the same play with the same actors repeating the same lines over and over again, with just some small variations in their tone each time?
“Where do you see yourself in five years?”
coherent vision
This is the self-consistency fallacy at play:
“I have always acted in a certain way; therefore, I must continue to act in this way.”
Psychologists refer to it as the “continuation bias”, economists talk of “path dependence”,
The self-consistency fallacy is why you may choose a new job based on your past roles and why you may stay within your field of study even when your interests have evolved.
previous choices
should not become an artificial boundary that guides our choices.
yourself the following questions
Are there opportunities that I have dismissed because they don’t fit my existing trajectory?
What new paths might I be able to explore if I were not bound by my past choices?
What would my ideal career look like if I could start from a blank slate?
make you more open to opportunities that are not obviously aligned with your present priorities:
The stories we will share in the future may be squiggly, and strange, but at least they won’t be boring.
