We Are Terrible Planners

Go make yourself a plan
And be a shining light.
Then make yourself a second plan,
For neither will come right.

a little science

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an extremely complex interplay of fight or flight against goals and achievement

Thinking In Futures

• Goals
• Motivation
• Stress
• Past History

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Help

• Intermediate Steps
• Know Where You Want to Go
• Keep Aligning to the Horizon

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Awarenesses

• Aligning Ourselves
• Investigating a "Sector of Reality"
• Control versus Collaboration

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Manage Yourself

• If pressed, ask: how is this challenging me?
• The more we feel unsteady the more we will try to plan
• Our past experiences infiltrate

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Avoid

• Methodism & Ritualism
• "The way it has always been done"
• Not delegating, Not Teaming, Not model-sharing

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Patterns

info hoarding

circling cycles

analysis paralysis

finger pointing

no deviation from established practices

controlling
protecting
complying

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team

consensus
"sometimes it just means everyone has been heard well enough to move forward"

boundaries around experimentation

you will not be able to do this alone.

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my personal cheat sheet

• The more my group creates shared mental models the better
• I don't have all the answers, I have pretty good guesses
• Make decisions that you can test
• Abandon methods that do not serve you
• Meditate.
• Know your inherent optimism with planning.

read, apply, absorb, test

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Shannon Mason