Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang was a cut-co knife salesman early in his career. "I'm almost sure that I don't have a top level goal," he says when asked if he has a mission statement. The idea of a mission statement sounds obviously like a good idea right? If it's a well-considered declaration of your deepest intentions on the other hand my actual experience with mission statements is that they are often institutional BS"
Also: should we all have personal mission statements?