All it takes to render a plan obsolete is a slight change in circumstances, and then years of work are down the drain--but flexibility is always useful!
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Disagree, it depends on what you want to do. You cannot make large infrastructure, The Manhattan Project, etc, by being "adaptable" and keeping your options open. You need a plan instead. Indeterminate thinking can lead to very poor outcomes.
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I already said planning has uses! Major infrastructure being a biggie--but even there, if you're not adaptable while carrying out a plan, you'll likely run into trouble
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But I think in the US with people these days, big and small, there's too *much* indefinite thinking, "being open to options", in everything. A return to at least a little planning in people's daily lives would be a greater benefit than getting more adaptable.
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This is true of everything from savings rates and retirement, mate choice, college and career choice. Almost all of it is terrible and almost all of it involves no planning. People keep options open by not picking a major for 5 years, then have no plan for that debt, etc.
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Agreed on these points, for the most part, but it's just as easy to plan for a major and then find yourself unable to complete it--or to complete it and find that your plan was based on faulty assumption about future employability from that degree, etc...
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Where I'm coming from here are circumstances where a planning process is *mandatory* to the extent that by the time you're finished complying with it, all the circumstances have changed and all your work is obsolete
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Ah I think w.r.t compliance hell, I agree with you. But I'd characterize these issues as 'regulations that get in the way of planning', more than a good reason to push for more flexibility. The unpredictable nature of (the adaptableness!) of local regs is the enemy, not plans!
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same, nature rewards Adaptability planning is for autists
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