Good Morning,
Being a bit of a perfectionist, I find it frustrating to watch people go about some project and task, just winging it and more often than not, just failing, or with an outcome a lot less ambitious than they originally planned.
I remember times where folks make the mistake of seeing someone perform some task and deciding that they too could do the task from just what they have seen. And when they get it going, more often than not it turns out poorly if not outright fails.
Without having an intimate knowledge of what is required to complete a task or project, those taking it on are creating multiple obstacles, many they have no clue even exist, create an uphill battle to succeed.
We can blame those folks who make what we want to do look easy. The Rubik’s Cube or Yo-Yo masters who make the toys look so very simple to use, that we can’t wait to open our wallets and purses to get one. And before even the torn open package has time to settle on the counter, we are already frustrated that we can’t solve the puzzle or use the Yo-Yo like the master in the store.
They made it look so easy.
How many projects have we all started where we have actually got started, only to stop midway through because we ran into some un-foreseen obstacles. The number I can remember is painful to remember.
It seems that we are planning not so much to accomplish something, rather, we are planning to fail.
Without knowing a reasonable amount about what we wish to accomplish, we make it harder and harder on us to achieve our goals.
The Rubiks and Yo-Yo masters have been practicing for weeks, months or years. We don’t see that part, and assume it was not necessary or even happened.
As part of taking on any project or goal, we need to seek out what it will take to get it done. The answer is not ‘I saw this guy do it and it was easy’. More often than not, most tasks are never that easy.
And if you get lucky and achieve your goal on the first outing, it is really important to figure out why, because your second attempt may not be so successful and you will wonder why you failed.
Without understanding what is involved in any undertaking, we may be planning to fail, rather than accomplishing the goal at hand.
Something to think about.
Sanford Berenberg
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