“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail,” is a trite, over simplified piece of advice designed to encourage people to set goals and take steps to achieve them. This phrase wandered through my head the other night (do not ask me why, for I do not know ;) and it was followed by this train of pointless logic:
1. If by failing to plan you plan to fail, you therefore have a plan.
2. But if you then have a plan you have not failed to plan.
3. So if failing to plan was your plan you therefore have no plan because you do have a plan.
4. Thus this statement is either profoundly logical or logically impossible.
:)
Im confused, and worried about myself now for plans or lack of plans!!!
ReplyDeleteThat's the problem with trite advice: it doesn't help ;)
ReplyDeleteBut I think this works for me because I make plans but fail to keep them, so I think it makes me exempt from the whole thing :)
Awesome :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Dan!
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