(January 29, 2016 at 3:46 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(January 29, 2016 at 3:40 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: What you call realism I call my default position. I'm well beyond it at this point. I was talking about planning, in effect. Planning shouldn't focus on an assessment of things as they are or even as they're likely to be, but for your involvement.
Planning for the future without taking current stock, and that demands a realistic outlook -- well, go on ahead and do it. But the best-laid plans of mice and men aft go agley, I'm told.
That's not what I meant. At which point do you actually start planning, though, and be satisfied with what you know about the current state of things? Being too much of a "realist" can be a bad thing. You'll start sustaining that reality at some point and inadvertently keep it going as it is.
