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*[[Be careful in what you wish for]] - on this score, [[if you want to get to the Olympics, take up curling]]. | *[[Be careful in what you wish for]] - on this score, [[if you want to get to the Olympics, take up curling]]. | ||
*[[Wing it]]. It will be fine. You will figure it out. Over planning anything is the lawyers folly, and cut you off from serendipitous opportunity. You make a much better decision on the spot in right of circumstances than you can possibly do in abstract in advance. | *[[Wing it]]. It will be fine. You will figure it out. Over planning anything is the lawyers folly, and cut you off from serendipitous opportunity. You make a much better decision on the spot in right of circumstances than you can possibly do in abstract in advance. | ||
*[[Have a plan. Even a bad one]] have a theory of the game, and act as if you are executing it. | |||
====What you’ve got. Be ''additive''==== | ====What you’ve got. Be ''additive''==== | ||
*[[Do it properly]]. Build for the long term. The lesson of Worcester: if you make it easy, you will attract the mediocre and encourage them to be lazy. If you do it properly, it will stand for 1,000 years and still take the breath away. | *[[Do it properly]]. Build for the long term. The lesson of Worcester: if you make it easy, you will attract the mediocre and encourage them to be lazy. If you do it properly, it will stand for 1,000 years and still take the breath away. | ||