Miswanting: Career planning with best guesses

8th February 2007

Interesting article on this psychology blog about how bad people are at predicting what they want, especially when it comes to career choices:

So, in the journey from the sublime - predicting how we’ll feel about winning the lottery - to the ridiculous - predicting which sandwiches we’ll want for lunch - we are incredibly bad at knowing our future selves. And if we can’t even decide what type of sandwich we might like next week, how can we possibly decide what type of job we’d like to be doing in twenty years?