instead of working back from a goal, work forward from promising situtions. That is, look at the options that you have now and choose those the will give you the most promising range of options afterward
your first task in life should be figuring out what are you interested in, curiosity turns work into play
​Minimum Viable Self - "Seen from a distance, (other people’s) existence seems to possess a coherence and a unity which they cannot have, in reality, but which seems evident to the spectator."