Reverse engineering in planning professional and personal development

I was prompted by chaotic user
topic prudkovski on such chaotic thoughts on the topic "The problem of choosing the future path of a young specialist . "

The basic idea.
To choose your profession and / or vocation, think up what you terribly lack in life for happiness now and will not be enough in the future of medium range.
Imagine this in the equivalent of specific knowledge and skills.
Detail them to the required level.
Highlight groups of knowledge and skills based on membership in a particular profession.
Sort the groups in descending order by the amount of knowledge and skills that are present in them.
The idea is to get a list of professions that will be of interest to you.

I think that such an approach is not new and is probably present in some smart
books with headings like “do it yourself” and the like, offering scenarios of
personal self-development. If anyone saw such an approach somewhere, please share the links. After reading the

comments on the above article, I made one generalization that all
commenting habrayuzers describe what they did at one time or another
and what they have come to at the moment, that is, describe how they implemented
their project of personal growth.

However, let’s try to approach this issue from a different perspective.
Take for reference point our future of average remoteness from the current position
in the space-time continuum.
For example, +5 years in advance, for me personally it will be 29.
Just at this age a blow to the psyche happens if a person realizes that he has not achieved everything he wanted. But what exactly did he want to achieve? The answer is usually poorly formalized.

So, we describe what we want to get for ourselves in 5 years, and
even a fantasy on the topic of future technologies is allowed , that is, for example, not “having an
xbox game console with a 2-meter diagonal plasma screen,” but something like “ the presence of a dedicated
game room with holographic modeling of reality as in StarTrek Voyager. ”
We describe it thesis and concretely, if the state, then the figure, if the technology, then what,
if moral satisfaction, then on a scale of points.

The most important condition is to go beyond the blurry “apartment, car, cottage”.
Think broader and more detailed.
Your website? Which domain, whose hosting, how many hits per day?
Personal business? How many people are in the company, what is the annual turnover, the amount of taxes?
How many children, wives / husbands and lovers / lovers?
Home? Cottage or apartment? Number of rooms and toilets?

We classify the theses described.
Then we make a similar classification of what is currently available.
We establish connections between the selected groups of abstracts.

We determine, in as much detail as possible, with what tools you can go through these connections from one to another from the future to the present.
Suggested tools: money, career, education, knowledge, communication, health, willpower.

For example, in order to go the above path from the prefix to the
holographic modeling room, you can choose the path of invention of the desired technology
yourself.
For a big fortune, imagine that it already exists, and then unwind the path to the present where it came from.

I do not pretend to be original, it's just the thoughts that have arisen, but if you suddenly hook someone, you can try to discuss this topic and, possibly, develop it in more detail and scientifically. =)

ps the first post on Habré.