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You don't need a plan, you need skills and a problem.
- pg 19y agoThat's a great sentence. Could possibly even be boiled down to "you need a problem," since trying to solve problems is the way to develop skills.
- mynameishere 19y ago"I will solve XYZ problem" is a plan.
- jraines 19y agoMore of an intention. I somewhat agree -- my first reaction was to append "and then a plan" to the end of the sentence. But I think the most accurate take on the subject is this: "I have always found plans to be worthless, but planning indispensable." --Dwight D. Eisenhower An important distinction I think.
- cglee 19y agoNice article, except the Columbus reference.
- chaostheory 19y ago"No battle plan survives contact with the enemy" -- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
- ivankirigin 19y ago"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." - Dwight D. Eisenhower ...but, planning in place of action is planning on failure.
- Lagged2Death 19y agoI'd heard that as Winston Churchill. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Churchill http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Churchill
- erdos2 19y agoA member of the National Academy of Sciences of my acquaintance once said that life was too chaotic to plan beyond six months.