What we are taught at the B-schools and what we learn behind the big glass building sitting across the table with fluent, apt and distinguished personalities is art of planning . But do we really need it? And whats a plan after all? considerable amount of literature and philosophy has been developed on the law of nature, how luck works, how the nature has a plan for you. And in modern day we try and overlook completely that and tend to over depend on the planning ability of a human brain. But if we try and take a closer look, we find there is no single instance where a plan has succeeded 100%. And even when we claim it was planned, it was serendipity in disguise.
Planning does one thing for sure, blocks our wide vision and streamlines it in one direction. Planners call it 'focused approach'. I call it closed approach. My vision is blind to other possibilities. I don't see any other road. And the worst part is probability of better ways being there is more and I choose to blind myself. A man has 6 senses. And the 6th sense is the gut instinct driven by trust and grown by experience. Like dog we can sense danger, we can sense euphoria, we can sense when some one in interested. The same sense can come handy in picking up what the best we can choose among the ones we have in disposal. Nature drives you to realize the potential in you and you must be driven. We must give serendipity the deserving share of it existence in our life. Let not plan block its way and we grow complacent with a mediocre result.
A planned way can always be traversed, but an unplanned way can not be traversed by planning. so what if it fails? It leads to dead end? We can come back to the same junction and walk the planed path.
In my experience in the software industry as a developer in a team, I understand planning fails. We must have a certain directives like which direction to look at, and the goal must set. But the path must not be defined. The planning fails with the tendency to define even the path. All we need to do is believe and vision. Rest let the nature lead us to that, we must be ready to work for it.
Truly
Abinash
