On Apr 16, 2:39 pm, Immortalist
yahoo.com> wrote:> On Apr 15, 6:16 pm, darwinist
gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If you want to have good plans or improve the ones you've got, it's
>> important to remember the difference between the quality of your plans
>> on the one hand, and your ability to plan on the other. Consider the
>> analogy of drawing:
>
> Very good post about achieving goals. I remember one lecture I had to
> listen to many times. On the chalk board was drawn a line, then at the
> right end was the goal, then we had to discuss and mark the things
> that had to be done along that line. Then we discussed how many of the
> steps along the way were necessary to complete the other steps. Then
> after we had populated the line with circles and the steps written
> inside each circle, we had to think of what had to be done to complete
> particular steps, that is make a short list for each circle. Still
> looking online for this type of goals achievment style.
Interesting. Sounds similar to a gantt chart (
http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Gantt_chart), but those are usually represented with bar-graphs
not lines/circles.
Thanks for the links. Is this your site?
>
>> The quality of a drawing is not the same as the skill of the artist
>> who made it. With time, research, an eraser, and a willingness to
>> redraft, anyone can improve a picture they've drawn. A greater ability
>> to draw, however, would mean a better first draft and faster
>> improvements. With the same dedication but a greater ability, the
>> drawing could be done sooner or more could be done in the same amount
>> of time.
>
>> As you improve a picture, your knowledge and skill will improve but
>> mostly the improvements apply to that single picture: the objects,
>> angles, positioning and style of that particular scene. A great
>> improvement in one picture will only mean a moderate improvement in
>> your general drawing ability.
>
>> If you have large and many drawings you want to make, then it would be
>> useful to develop your drawing ability in general, in addition to the
>> specific projects you have in mind. In the long run this extra work
>> will pay off in the form of faster and easier progress with the
>> projects you care about. General improvement can be achieved through
>> exercises and experiments that were never meant to be complete
>> pictures, or through complete pictures that are smaller, more playful
>> and less important in themselves.
>
>> Likewise with plans: if you will need to make big important plans or
>> many plans during your life then it's worth finding the time, thinking
>> up the exercises and putting in the effort to improve your planning
>> ability. This will allow you - if you maintain the same dedication to
>> real, important plans - to develop your real plans more quickly and
>> therefore make more good ones, or the same number but better.
>
>> If you want to learn a musical instrument then you can practice
>> between lessons and take on more songs than you teacher gives you. If
>> you want to draw better then you can draw more than necessary, try to
>> produce pictures that are better than necessary and aim for a variety
>> in what you draw. If you want to learn to plan better then you can
>> make up goals beyond what's necessary, make your plans better than
>> necessary, aim to be more efficient than necessary and work on a
>> variety of plans.
>
>> As long as these things are done in addition to working on your more
>> urgent, "real" plans and not instead of them, then both your ability
>> and your accomplishments will probably improve over time.
