Directive: Predict the Future
When I was younger, I really loved the choose-your-own-adventure books. If you’ve never read one before, essentially everyone starts off with the same story at the beginning. As the story develops, you reach pauses in the story where you have to make a decision for the character. Whichever path you choose changes the course of the story. These books are great because you can read it multiple times and the story will be different each time. It’s interesting because you could read the story once and read it again, but choose a few different paths, and you could still end up with the same ending. And other times it could be the complete opposite. You get a real sense of cause & effect the more times you read the story.
These kinds of stories actually remind me quite a bit of driving. When you’re driving, you have all sorts of choices. Where are you going? What route are you going to take? Will you make any stops along the way? You may take many different routes to get to the same place everyday or maybe you prefer to go somewhere new everyday. Often times we get caught up in our routines; we drive the same way to get to the same place everyday. Maybe it’s time to treat life like a choose-your-own-adventure book. Throw out your routine, open yourself up to new possibilities, take a new path, and see what happens.
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