Acharya Prashant addresses a student's question about how to answer the common interview query, "Where do you see yourself in five or ten years?", especially when one lacks a clear vision. He explains that this question must be addressed at two levels: from the employer's perspective and from one's own perspective. From the employer's viewpoint, Acharya Prashant clarifies that no employer is genuinely looking for a clear-cut, definitive answer. The interviewer themselves likely does not know where they will be in five years. Therefore, cultivating a fake, manufactured answer, such as aspiring to be a senior manager in their company, is artificial and easily seen through by experienced interviewers. He advises being honest and stating something along the lines of, "I take a step at a time. This is the field I'm interested in, and I want to probe this field further." He assures that a relatively vague but honest answer will not impede one's selection chances. From the individual's perspective, he states that it is not at all necessary to be very clear about the future. To be clear about the future means subscribing to and limiting yourself to your own imagination as it arises from your state today. He illustrates this by asking if a 21-year-old would want to live by the vision of their 16-year-old self, or if a 26-year-old would want to be constrained by the vision of their current 21-year-old self. Since one is supposed to grow and evolve, a plan made today based on limited knowledge would suffocate the more developed future self. Planning too far ahead is illogical and means giving up the liberty to choose and change. Instead of long-term planning, the focus should be on taking life one day, one month, or at most, six months at a time. The primary goal should be to develop both externally and internally. This involves having one's center in place, wanting to know more about how the world runs, and understanding who one is within. The combination of these two levels of knowledge will reveal the right direction. He advises retaining one's freedom and being flexible, not ideologically driven or rigid. If a different path appears better in the future, one should be prepared to change. He also deconstructs the societal pressure to "settle down," pointing out the logical fallacy in parents wanting their children to achieve things they never did, yet expecting them to settle down in the same conventional manner.