A quick hypothesis is that when you don’t plan, you see every achievement as an improvement over status quo. But when you have a plan, suddenly you compare every step with the goal, so the feedback for every step is “you are not there yet”—not quite encouraging.
It’s like instead of getting emotional rewards for every step we do, we take a huge emotional loan in the planning phase, and then we just have to pay it by work.
That explains why planning—even to ridiculous levels of detail, to the point where I’ve done most of the work—is enjoyable, yet following up on planning is tedious.
Hmm, you may be right.
A quick hypothesis is that when you don’t plan, you see every achievement as an improvement over status quo. But when you have a plan, suddenly you compare every step with the goal, so the feedback for every step is “you are not there yet”—not quite encouraging.
It’s like instead of getting emotional rewards for every step we do, we take a huge emotional loan in the planning phase, and then we just have to pay it by work.
That explains why planning—even to ridiculous levels of detail, to the point where I’ve done most of the work—is enjoyable, yet following up on planning is tedious.