What is the Odyssey Plan?

The Odyssey Plan is a life planning exercise designed to help individuals figure out what to do with their lives by envisioning different paths and making long-term decisions. The process involves writing down what your life could look like five years from now on three different paths:

1. Current Path: Continue on your current trajectory and think about the possible outcomes.
2. Different Path: Consider a completely different career or life path and its potential outcomes.
3. Ideal Path: Imagine what your life would look like if there were no financial constraints or societal obligations, enabling you to do whatever you want.

This exercise was shared by Ali Abdaal as a tool that significantly helped him reassess and change his career direction after realizing the outcomes of his then-current path weren't exciting 1.