Purposive Drift
Purposive Drift: Making It Up As We Go Along by Richard Oliver
It is a common theory that successful people live their lives like a project plan, so we struggle to shape our lives along a pre-determined path. Instead, Oliver asserts that that the majority of people, many of them very successful, make it up as they go along.
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In the brave new world of bureaucratic rationality the answers "I don’t know" or "I don’t know yet" are perceived as signs of incompetence or irresponsibility.
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