I`ve carefully planned every answer to The Decider`s dilemmas, so I guess I`ll stay that way. Answer: Carefully Planned Come on guys, now you can say Completly Improvised and score again. I can garatee a 84% efectiveness. Gotta go back to moonshooting.
This one's great. Both the ability to plan and the ability to improvise a plan B are what make us unique as a species.
The Decider has chosen his words carefully on this one. It's not just "Planning or Improvisation" -- it's "Careful Planning or Complete Improvisation".
And let's not confuse "carefully planned" with "overplanned". Improvising has its time and place, and overplanning is certainly a lame way to spend a vacation, or live a life, or carry out a courtship, but beyond the initial romance of the idea, improvisation only gets you so far in most cases.
Without careful planning, there'd be no followthrough on spontaneous sparks of genius. There'd be no architecture or Internet, or movies, or wine, or science of any kind -- so many things we enjoy wouldn't even exist. Improvisation needs careful planning to flourish. You can't make muffins without a muffin tin, or paint a masterpiece without a well constructed canvas.
It might seem out of character for someone with artsy fartsy tendencies who's been know to plan things last-minute, but even I don't want to take my chances with a bunch of flaky, hedonistic anarchists ruled by their whims.
For Carl's reasons, I don't think "careful planning" can be the answer.
I think we have to consider their respective functions in scenarios for which they could potentially be a common demoninator. In all dilemmas, don't we have to assume a fairly equal playing field? Otherwise, how can we compare the two...things?
If nearly every successful action in the world ever completed is a result of "careful planning," for lack of a better descriptor for what life is, then this is not a dangerous dilemma at all. In order for it to be, we have to assume that the decider meant for the two options to have more equal, though opposite in effect, opportunity.
JB, you make a good point; I'll concede that taking something to the extreme isn't always an effective way to solve a dilemma (although I do often approach it that way).
This time, however, we don't have to imagine such a lopsided scenario. The Decider has laid it out for us already. A small handful of words are all you have to go on in this "game", and you have to take them at face value, not what you imagine them to mean. If he hadn't used the adverbs "Carefully" and "Completely", we'd be faced with a completely different question, and a much harder one at that. In fact, you're absolutely right: today's dilemma isn't necessarily dangerous at all. I believe that he's just testing us with a softball today.
Even 'completely improvised' is a plan within itself - your planning to do things on the fly. And every decision you choose to make, while on the fly, is creating a carefully designed plan one step at a time. And knowing all of us fairly well, we can assume each of those individual decisions is carefully picked in the moment it presents itself, after first weighing the choices before us, thereby becoming, yet again, carefully planned.
President Eisenhower (then General) said: "...plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
I absolutely agree.
As it applies to our dilemma, I don't believe the Decider has given us mutually exclusive options. I believe that something can be carefully planned and then, upon execution, completely improvised. In other words, paraphrasing our good friend Ike, we can carefully plan, but then deviate from that plan as needed.
So, ultimately, I want to go in with a carefully planned plan, but be ready to embrace change as needed. ANSWER: Carefully Planned.
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Neither. I prefer "loosely planned with much room for change."
I guess that of the two extremes, carefully planned is the more distasteful one.
Answer: Completely improvised.
I`ve carefully planned every answer to The Decider`s dilemmas, so I guess I`ll stay that way. Answer: Carefully Planned
Come on guys, now you can say Completly Improvised and score again. I can garatee a 84% efectiveness.
Gotta go back to moonshooting.
"Carefully Planned" is the correct answer.
JB's answer is unbeatable. But there is a right answer or it wouldn't be a dangerous dilemma.
I'm going with completely improvised as well. Seems like more fun?
Completely improvised, without a doubt. Anybody can carefully plan- may not be a good plan- but everyone can plan carefully. Improv takes skill.
I'm not good at it.
Completely improvised.
This one's great. Both the ability to plan and the ability to improvise a plan B are what make us unique as a species.
The Decider has chosen his words carefully on this one. It's not just "Planning or Improvisation" -- it's "Careful Planning or Complete Improvisation".
And let's not confuse "carefully planned" with "overplanned". Improvising has its time and place, and overplanning is certainly a lame way to spend a vacation, or live a life, or carry out a courtship, but beyond the initial romance of the idea, improvisation only gets you so far in most cases.
Without careful planning, there'd be no followthrough on spontaneous sparks of genius. There'd be no architecture or Internet, or movies, or wine, or science of any kind -- so many things we enjoy wouldn't even exist. Improvisation needs careful planning to flourish. You can't make muffins without a muffin tin, or paint a masterpiece without a well constructed canvas.
It might seem out of character for someone with artsy fartsy tendencies who's been know to plan things last-minute, but even I don't want to take my chances with a bunch of flaky, hedonistic anarchists ruled by their whims.
I'm going with Careful Planning all the way.
For Carl's reasons, I don't think "careful planning" can be the answer.
I think we have to consider their respective functions in scenarios for which they could potentially be a common demoninator. In all dilemmas, don't we have to assume a fairly equal playing field? Otherwise, how can we compare the two...things?
If nearly every successful action in the world ever completed is a result of "careful planning," for lack of a better descriptor for what life is, then this is not a dangerous dilemma at all. In order for it to be, we have to assume that the decider meant for the two options to have more equal, though opposite in effect, opportunity.
JB, you make a good point; I'll concede that taking something to the extreme isn't always an effective way to solve a dilemma (although I do often approach it that way).
This time, however, we don't have to imagine such a lopsided scenario. The Decider has laid it out for us already. A small handful of words are all you have to go on in this "game", and you have to take them at face value, not what you imagine them to mean. If he hadn't used the adverbs "Carefully" and "Completely", we'd be faced with a completely different question, and a much harder one at that. In fact, you're absolutely right: today's dilemma isn't necessarily dangerous at all. I believe that he's just testing us with a softball today.
In your case, a swing and a miss.
completely improvised.... because chances are, even if you carefully plan, the whole thing will turn into complete improvisation.
(even though I try to carefully plan everything)
I choose: carefully planned.
Even 'completely improvised' is a plan within itself - your planning to do things on the fly. And every decision you choose to make, while on the fly, is creating a carefully designed plan one step at a time. And knowing all of us fairly well, we can assume each of those individual decisions is carefully picked in the moment it presents itself, after first weighing the choices before us, thereby becoming, yet again, carefully planned.
President Eisenhower (then General) said: "...plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
I absolutely agree.
As it applies to our dilemma, I don't believe the Decider has given us mutually exclusive options. I believe that something can be carefully planned and then, upon execution, completely improvised. In other words, paraphrasing our good friend Ike, we can carefully plan, but then deviate from that plan as needed.
So, ultimately, I want to go in with a carefully planned plan, but be ready to embrace change as needed. ANSWER: Carefully Planned.
The answer: carefully planned.
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