What if the plan fails? Find your next path forward.

Life doesn’t always go according to plan. You might have your dream career in mind, but what happens if your first path doesn’t work out? Do you give up—or do you pivot and find another way forward?

The Adjacent Possible is a course designed to help high school students like you build resilience, flexibility, and confidence as you plan for the future. Instead of locking yourself into a single path, you’ll learn how to:

• Explore multiple pathways to the same career field so you always have options.
• Identify your transferable skills—the abilities you can take anywhere, no matter what job you choose.
• Adapt and pivot when challenges or roadblocks show up, without losing sight of your bigger goals.
• Create your own Adjacent Possible map, where you’ll chart out at least three ways to reach the same career field or dream job.

Through real-world examples (like pilots and teachers with multiple routes to success) and hands-on exercises, you’ll discover that there’s never just one way forward. You’ll leave this course not just with a plan, but with the mindset and skills to adjust that plan whenever life changes course.

💡 Instead of asking “What if it fails?” you’ll learn to ask, “What’s my adjacent possible?”