Building a Personal Vision and Strategy
Introduction—Challenging Popular Assumptions
This chapter will hopefully help you to understand how to create the vision of your development process. During the first three chapters, we have focused on understanding ourselves and what personal development means. From now on, the core topics will deal with how to plan our way forward.
Firstly, we need to challenge two generally accepted assumptions. The first one is the belief that we can plan our long-term success goal—key performance indicators in business jargon. We cannot predict the results of our choices. “Success happens, the same as happiness” (Frankl 2017). This is one of the ideas that Viktor Frankl defends during his acclaimed Man’s ...
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