Luke Murray explains how obsessive planning kept him from acting and learning. He believed thinking hard enough would reveal the right move without trying anything, but that mindset blocked the feedback loop that actually teaches you what works.
I used to believe that by planning, I could avoid making a wrong choice. Really, it was seeded in this belief that if you think hard enough, you'll never make a mistake. And it's also seeded in the belief that there's definitely a right move that thinking will allow you to see without actually having to take any actions. What that was really doing was keeping me from taking the necessary actions to get any amount of feedback to start learning about what was the right move for me personally.
