First, it means you should think of your career as a work in progress. Rather than having a fixed career plan, try to have a career ‘model’ – a set of provisional goals and hypotheses that you’re constantly revising as you acquire new evidence or opportunities. It’s better to have a bad plan than no plan, but only if you’re open to changing it. Second, find out where you’re uncertain, then reduce that uncertainty. Before making a decision, don’t merely try to weigh up all the pros and cons as you currently see them (though that is a good thing to do). Ask yourself: ‘What is the single most
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