Reverse engineering in the planning of professional and personal development

Hummer user prudkovski pushed me on such confused thoughts
on the topic "The problem of choosing the future path of a young specialist . "

Main thought.
In order to choose your profession and / or vocation, think of something you in life are terribly lacking for happiness now and will not be enough for the future medium range.
Present this in the equivalent of specific knowledge and skills.
Detail them before reaching the required level.
Highlight the group of knowledge and skills on the basis of belonging to a particular profession.
Sort the groups in descending order according to the amount of knowledge and skills that are present in them.
The idea is to get a list of professions that will be of interest to you.

I think that this approach is not new and is certainly present in some clever
books with do-it-yourself titles and the like offering scripts
self-development personality. If anyone has seen such an approach somewhere, then please share the links.

After reading the comments on the above article, I made one generalization that all
commenting habrayuzer paint as they did at one time or another
and what came to the moment, i.e. describe how they implemented
your personal growth project.
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However, let's try to approach this issue from the other side.
Take as a starting point your future of average distance from the current position
in the space-time continuum.
For example, +5 years ahead, for me personally it will be 29.
Just at this age there is a blow to the psyche, if a person realizes that he did not achieve everything he wanted. But what exactly did he want to achieve? The answer usually turns out to be weakly formalized.

So, we describe what we want to get for ourselves in 5 years, and it is allowed
even a fantasy on the subject of future technologies, i.e., for example, not “the presence of a gaming console
xbox with a plasma screen 2 meter diagonal ", but something like" the presence of a dedicated
gaming room with holographic simulation of reality as in StarTrek Voyager. "
Describe thesis and specifically, if the state, then the figure, if the technology, then what
if moral satisfaction, then on a scale.

The most important condition is to go beyond the blurred “apartment, car, cottage”.
Think wider and more detailed.
Your website? What domain, whose hosting, how many hits per day?
Own business? How many people are in the company, what is the annual turnover, the amount of taxes?
How many children, wives / husbands and mistresses / lovers?
Dwelling? Cottage or apartment? Number of rooms and toilets?

We classify the described theses.
Then we make a similar classification of what is currently available.
We establish connections between the selected groups of theses.

We determine, in as much detail as possible, what tools can be used to follow these links from one to another from the future to the present.
Proposed tools: money, career, education, knowledge, communication, health, willpower.

For example, in order to pass the above path from the console to the room
holographic modeling, you can choose the invention of the desired technology
on their own.
For a large state, imagine what it already is, and then unwind the way to the present where it came from.

I do not pretend to originality, these are just thoughts that have arisen, but if you suddenly catch someone, you can try to discuss this topic and, possibly, develop it in more detail and scientifically. =)

ps the first post on Habré.