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Being in my 40's and reading this, the only thing I can do is quote Tyson: "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." -Mike Tyson
by MR4D 10y ago
Being in my 40's and reading this, the only thing I can do is quote Tyson:
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."
-Mike Tyson
- toomanybeersies 10y agoFollowing that metaphor: it's always a good plan to wear a mouth guard so that your teeth don't get knocked out.
- ryanmarsh 10y agoI dont know what serves as the mouth guard in your analogy but it sure as fuck won't stop you from getting laid out.
- dathanb82 10y agoNah, but you might still have your teeth afterwards.
- jasin 10y agoThis is spot on, because often we prepare by wearing a mouth guard, while in reality their protection against getting knocked out basically zero.
- LanceH 10y agoNot true, a mouth guard absorbs a lot of impact from the lower jaw upwards.
- paulpauper 10y agowont stop the rest of your face from being bloodied
- adamredwoods 10y agoAmen brother. After having a child, I threw all plans out the window.
- shortsightedsid 10y agoPlans are nothing; planning is everything. - Eisenhower
- elevensies 10y agoLong range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions. - Peter F. Drucker
- spraak 10y agoEr, planning is exactly what I learned after having a child
- obstinate 10y agoI didn't have a plan and things have been going great so far. So it's a little different when you're not in a zero-sum adversarial situation like a boxing ring.
- kchauhan 10y agoI always do planning. Its not fulfill every time. But, at least I know where I am and how much i done/not done.
- spraak 10y agoI don't think that should stop you from planning, but just like death is ultimately inevitable, it is good to be healthily aware of failure (getting punched in the mouth). "Oh well, the movie is going to end, might as well not watch it"
- 38kkdiu 10y agoYeah, being in my 40s and looking at that, my immediate thought was "oh, it seems I'm trying to figure out plan Z, even when I had pretty good plans A and B." My advice from the other side is that there's too many unknowns to plan out your career. Fields shift in terms of content and culture, and you don't know what you like until you're really in the middle of it. By a lot of metrics, I've achieved plan A, but found out, after a lot of work, that I am not a good fit for it and that plan B has a lot of similar problems. I never had a plan Z.