453. Why Smart People Always Have a Plan B, C, and D

Do You F*cking Mind?

Mindset Recreation Club

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

5 • 862 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

You’ve probably heard it before: “If you have a Plan B, you’re not committed to Plan A.” Spoiler alert: that’s not confidence that’s delusion. In this episode, I’m flipping that mindset and showing you why having a backup plan is actually one of the most powerful things you can do for your goals. Backups don’t mean giving up. They mean being strategic, resourceful, and unstoppable. We’ll dive into the neuroscience of decision making under pressure, how backup plans affect confidence and performance, and why clarity often comes after giving yourself more than one path forward. What you’ll learn: Why having a Plan B makes you more, not less likely to succeed at Plan A How cognitive flexibility protects your mental health The link between contingency planning and confidence If you’ve ever feared that “hedging your bets” is weak this episode is your permission to be smart, not stubborn. Prepare to rewire how you chase your dreams. Join the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DYFM Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Group Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@doyoufkingmind⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠on IG Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@dyfmpodcast⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on TT Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@⁠⁠⁠⁠alexisfernandezpreiksa⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on IG Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@alexispredez⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on TT Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@mindsetrecreationclub⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on IG Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@mindsetrecreationclub⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on TT Order your Brain Journal here: ⁠⁠⁠www.mindsetrecreationclub.com⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, beautiful beans and welcome to the podcast episode of today. So in today's episode,
0:24.0	we are talking about should I have a plan B? The answer is yes and I'm going to be talking
0:30.0	about the importance of having a plan B, C and D and why these plans actually don't deter you
0:37.2	from your plan A,
0:38.3	but they actually make you more comfortable with pursuing your plan A
0:42.8	and feel like it is the right path because you've got these alternative plans.
0:47.8	I also want you to look at a plan B, not so much as a fallback plan,
0:52.0	but as a knowing that this alternative reality for me exists,
0:56.6	it's another path that I can go down.
0:58.4	It helps you become better at determining what are the best choices for you within your plan A.
1:04.1	Okay.
1:04.8	So I actually don't really like, I used to bang on about if, you know, if you're so serious about your plan A, you shouldn't have a plan B. I used to bang on about that. Even before I did the podcast, because I think by the time I was doing the podcast, I learned that that kind of sentiment didn't really work for me at all. And actually the opposite was true for me and for most people that I saw succeeding in areas of their life that they didn't
1:27.7	expect to succeed in. I, yeah, I don't really believe in that because so often people
1:33.6	discover things about their capabilities or careers that they never knew that they would be
1:39.6	interested in through adversity, through things not working out for them, through like really
1:43.9	trying so hard at
1:44.7	something and then it failing and then due to that failure due to the breakup due to the xyz
1:49.8	they discovered something that was quite a surprise to them and they were able to like move their
1:55.7	skill set across to a completely different industry and thrive and be shocked that, you know, that they had never
2:01.2	even thought that they would see themselves in that situation. Okay. So I want this to be an
2:06.1	episode to help you become super open-minded about your options and your choices in life,
2:10.9	to feel like you are rich with choices. And I also feel like if you're someone that's really
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