Why Your 5 Year Plans Don't Work
Why Your Five-Year Plan is Bullshit
Most people think success happens like this:
Find your passion → Create masterplan → Execute flawlessly → Profit.
This is fantasy. Real life looks more like:
Try something → Fail spectacularly → Pivot → Stumble into opportunity → Repeat until you're dead or rich.
The obsession with finding your "purpose" and landing your "dream job" is just procrastination with better branding. While you're waiting for divine career inspiration, that kid selling fidget spinners on Amazon just bought his second rental property.
Success isn't about having the perfect plan. It's about having 47 backup plans and the emotional resilience to burn through most of them.
So stop looking for your North Star and start collecting small wins. Each "failure" is just expensive market research for your next attempt.
Our approach is that life is about planning thousands of scenario's and constantly redrawing your plan that will help you lead the life you want.
Posted Feb 7, 2026, 11:03 PM UTC