My 10-year vision(1)
I was pissed when my NTU prof told me I had no difference than 90% NTU students without a 10-year vision. As an instinctive person, I…
I was pissed when my NTU prof told me I had no difference than 90% NTU students without a 10-year vision. As an instinctive person, I questioned if this formula was applicable to everyone’s life. However, my disagreement did trigger deeper conversations with people who had visions. And here, I made my 10-year vision by OKR with the notes of my learning process.
Three 10 years vision for my 30-year-old
The vision is developed from the OKR system with objectives(O) and key results(KR).
O1: I will create an alien organization to accommodate unconventional talents.
Basic KR: Develop unconventional talents detection toolkit and have co-living houses with 20+ Feynman-like people in different cities.
Medium KR: Create a form of organization that recruits unconventional talents with shared intellectual resources(innovative project, jobs, ideas).
Advanced KR: Fund for events, training, labs, island parties to secure the network and cultivate similar creative and curious young talents by the alien organization.
O2: I will be a strategist better than Kenichi Ohmae.
Basic KR: Experience in top innovative consulting companies.
Medium KR: Be the key decision-maker who builds up a new system/practice that reform/build up a big school/company.
Advanced KR: No clue.
O3: I will publish a strategic book that teaches how to learn strategy in a self-learning achievable way.
Basic KR: Keep track of deliberate daily strategy practice & evolving solutions qualitatively and quantitatively
Medium KR: Publish a book that I get interviewed by 5 media
Advanced KR: A book that becomes a recommendation resource for business college/business clubs, etc
Why do we need to have a 10-year vision?
Though this question is highly debatable, these are takeaways I have
10-year vision gives me a general direction for my life. Though this is only my first iteration, I find it a useful guideline for making a decision when I don’t know what life option to choose.
10-year vision increases my career awareness. I only think of my career whenever I need to have a job. When developing my vision, I put more effort into reflecting on my passion and think of potential career paths that aligned with my vision. If this vision is falsified in the future, I will be able to identify the inner change of myself as well.
Last but not least, announcing my 10-year vision in public is to find people with similar interests so I can build my vision with them.
Why most people are not able to set up their vision ?
The major challenges I encounter for setting up a 10-year vision
Ego-driven fear: Fear of making overpromises and disappoint my future self.
Reality constraints: Too many reality factors, too hard to take those confounding variables into consideration.
The two reasons above hinder the ability to deeply reflect in my life.
Solving fear and uncertainty through the Moonshot mindset
Moonshot mindset is a mindset for setting a vision that exceeds your maximum capacity, so we can jump out of our comfort zone and give our best shot. Putting it in the OKR system, if you achieve 100% of your goals, the goals are too easy. If you only achieve 20%, you take too easy on yourself. Since they are moonshot goals, it is good enough to achieve 60–80% of them.
Moonshot is ambition-driven. Setting mediocre goals unsatisfied me, but a harder goal that I need to achieve ALL of them freaks me out. But with a moonshot goal, the potential excites me. Also, already knowing that it is unlikely to 100% achieve them, I don’t stress out but want to take the challenge.
Moonshot means breaking through reality constraints. Google asks its employees not to think of reality constraints since Google believe they will prepare those resources for their employees. From my viewpoint, it is an opportunity to reflect on my true passion, and free from all the uncertainties I cannot calculate.
If you have interests in my vision or know what can help me to build them up
feel free to contact me through
yung-hsuan@minerva.kgi.edu
Special thanks to my friends Alan and Poseidon who have great visions