# 🏄 The Odyssey Plan Revisited
Author:: Ali Abdaal
## Highlights
> One tool that helped me answer the question a couple of years ago is called *The Odyssey Plan* . It’s an exercise taught by professors at the Stanford Life Design Lab (which is apparently a thing). If you’ve followed my stuff for a while, you might’ve heard me mention it a few times.
> The idea is that you answer the following 3 prompts -
> 1. Write out, in detail, what your life would look like 5 years from now if you continued down your current path.
> 2. Write out, in detail, what your life would look like 5 years from now if you took a completely different path.
> 3. Write out, in detail, what your life would look like 5 years from now if money, social obligations, and what people would think, were irrelevant. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g74fqczr571910smqwv814s3))
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Title: 🏄 The Odyssey Plan Revisited
Author: Ali Abdaal
Tags: readwise, articles
date: 2024-01-30
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# 🏄 The Odyssey Plan Revisited
Author:: Ali Abdaal
## AI-Generated Summary
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## Highlights
> One tool that helped me answer the question a couple of years ago is called *The Odyssey Plan* . It’s an exercise taught by professors at the Stanford Life Design Lab (which is apparently a thing). If you’ve followed my stuff for a while, you might’ve heard me mention it a few times.
> The idea is that you answer the following 3 prompts -
> 1. Write out, in detail, what your life would look like 5 years from now if you continued down your current path.
> 2. Write out, in detail, what your life would look like 5 years from now if you took a completely different path.
> 3. Write out, in detail, what your life would look like 5 years from now if money, social obligations, and what people would think, were irrelevant. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01g74fqczr571910smqwv814s3))