Daniel Pink argues that detailed planning often becomes a barrier to progress. Acting itself is a form of planning: it generates information, reveals obstacles, and refines your goals. Waiting for perfect certainty before you move is a misconception about how the world actually works.
I feel like we're over-indexed on planning and under-indexed on acting in general, in terms of how we figure out our life. You might say, oh, I want to start a business, therefore I need to write a lengthy business plan and I need to make sure that I have 2 years of savings. I need to talk to 100 people who've done this before. Those are not inherently bad ideas, but I think that we can over-plan and under-act because acting is a form of planning. You know, when we act, we figure stuff out. And so the idea that for doing anything, you have to figure it all out and then execute, I think is wrong. I think it's wrong as a matter of how the world works. It's wrong wrong because acting is a form of figuring stuff out. And so I, I do think that the lesson of these regrets is that we should have general kind of a bias for action.
