On Action.
I’ve written before on constant actions, and I am quite happy with what I previously wrote. There is not much more to be said, but it is easy to forget as one moves forward with life.
Plans comes in the shape of weeks, months, and even years. Long term planning is advantageous, because so few people bother doing it.
And yet, all the planning in the world will get you nowhere.
Fail to plan, plan to fail.
But what if we fail to do?
Traveling without a map is better than having a map but never going anywhere.
And doing something is in itself a form of planning!
When you do something, you have contact with reality. The world will push back, sometimes in unexpected ways, and this is where you can adjust your hypothesis, and try again.
So perhaps the best way forward is to plan a little, do a little, plan a little, do a little. Get a continuous feedback loop going.
I still feel this is correct:
And so, if you get the planning right, everything else can go smoothly. You can jump into your work without worrying if you spend your time on low-value activities because you have already decided that what you are working on is a high-value activity. Then, the only thing left to do is to focus and try and do the absolute best you can on the task at hand.
But it can be difficult to know that you do indeed have the right plan.
