Too much planning stifles action. It overextends the world’s influence by collecting information on the current space of possibility, stifling imagination on what might come, and using that view to speculate how good your idea is. It builds cause and effect mechanisms onto a fluid and living idea. The performance and change we’re speculating about are not fully known as an unnatural place to economically be in; when was the last time you paid for something you didn’t see the shape of? Therapy is the only example that comes to mind.
The very act of planning cements an otherwise fluid, living idea into a stationary state. It productizes a moving set of thoughts into a ‘what it looks like’ resolution. 8 times 10, it is necessary, but when it does matter, it matters in the biggest, most invisible ways. It is the nagging noise in the back of our heads when we know there is more, but the couple of people we spoke to unintentionally discouraged us.
That delta between our imagination and others’ is the acute opportunity cost of fitting in and letting go of curiosity about the self.