Eu sou um apoiante declarado de trabalhar com um plano. Por isso, talvez perceba como um plano é uma coisa frágil, quando um plano embate violentamente contra a realidade, ou mudamos o plano ou, qual Pigarro, ficamos à espera que o mundo nos traga, numa bandeja dourada, o queijo que desapareceu... hum, é melhor mudar o plano.
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Mais importante do que ter um plano é o exercício de fazer o planeamento. O planeamento ajuda-nos a avaliar e a reconhecer se o caminho que estamos a percorrer se assemelha ao caminho que visualizámos quando fizemos o plano.
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No entanto, quando me falam de grandes planos dos governos torço sempre o nariz...
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Há dias, ao ver na televisão o República Checa vs Portugal, no último europeu de futebol, gritei golo aí uns cerca de 10/15 segundos antes da imagem chegar ao ecrã. Claro, a minha filha não gostou!!! Ela estava a seguir as imagens e o relato na TV e eu estava a seguir as imagens da TV mas o relato nos auriculares ligados ao rádio.
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Quando alguém segue um plano criado por si e para si tem, durante o desenrolar do plano, oportunidade de receber feedback rapidamente e actuar, mantendo ou alterando o plano. Agora imaginem um Grande Plano, criado pelo Grande Planeador que é um governo. Com quanto tempo de atraso é que vai receber feedback? Quão deformado vai chegar esse feedback? Quão próximo da realidade vão estar os autores do plano? Quem alterará mais rapidamente o plano se necessário?
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Um plano não pode ser um
colete de forças, não pode ser um mandamento divino. Um plano é uma hipótese... um plano, como dizia Popper, é uma maravilha, é uma hipótese que testamos no mundo e que podemos descartar se falhar... os animais, porque não têm planos, pagam-no quase sempre com a vida, quando
fogem dos constrangimentos impostos pela natureza.
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Laurence Gonzales em "Deep Survival" chama a atenção para a facilidade com que nos enamoramos dos planos, o que pode ser grave para o futuro, das pessoas, das empresas, dos países:
"The annoying thing about plans is how rare it is for everything to go just right. (Moi ici: Lembra-me logo Col. John 'Hannibal' Smith: "I love it when a plan comes together.")… they were moving toward a goal: the Big Climb, where the plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits. Sometimes an idea can drive action as powerfully as an emotion. Plans are an integral part of survival. Plans are generated as one of the many outputs of the brain as it goes about its business of mapping the body and the environment, along with the events taking place in both, resulting in adaptation.
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The human brain is particularly well suited to making complex plans that have na emotional component to drive motivation and behavior. Plans are stored in memory just as past events are. To the brain, the future is as real as the past. The difficulty begins when reality doesn’t match the plan.
Memories are not emotion, and emotion is not memory, but the two work together. Mental models, which are stored in memory, are not emotions either. But they can can be engaged with emotion, motivation, cognition, and memory. And since memories can exist in either the past or the future, the brain it’s the same thing. You bookmark the future in order to get there. It’s a magic trick: You can slide through time to a world that does not yet exist.
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we all make powerful models of the future. The world we imagine seems as real as the ones we’ve experienced. We suffise the model with the emotional values of past realities. And in the thrall of that vision (call it the “the plan,” writ large), we go forth and take action. If things don’t go according to the plan, revising such a robust model may be difficult. In an environment that has high objective hazards, the longer it takes to dislodge the imagined world in favor of the real one, the greater the risk.
In nature, adaptation is important; the plan is not. It’s a Zen thing. We must plan. But we must be able to let go of the plan, too.
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Psychologists who study survival say that people who are rule followers don’t do as well as those who are of independent mind and spirit. When a patient is told that he has six months to live, he has two choices: to accept the news and die, or to rebel and live. People who survive cancer in the face of such a diagnosis are notorious. The medical staff observes that they are “bad patients,” unruly, troublesome. They don’t follow directions. They question everything. They’re annoying. They’re survivors. The Tao Te Ching says:
The rigid person is a disciple of death;
The soft, supple, and delicate are lovers of life.
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The closer they got to the goal, the harder they tried, the more excited they became. Halfway through a Hollywood movie, the hero becomes totally commited to his goal. … the plan gradually became unshakable. The overwhelming evidence that conditions in the real world were rapidly diverging from their memories of the future made no difference.
… There is a tendency to make a plan and then to worship the plan, that “memory of the possible future.” But there is also a tendency to think that simply by putting forth more and more effort, we can overcome friction. … Rather than accept friction as a fact of life, they tried to overcome it. And as history shows, the harder we try, the more complex our plan for reducing friction, the worse things get."
Ter um plano é bom, planear é óptimo. Estar apaixonado por um plano é perigoso. Seguir planos do Grande Planeador é um acidente à espera de acontecer.
