On Apr 15, 10:17Â pm, darwinist
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yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> On Apr 15, 6:16 pm, darwinist
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>>> 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:
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>> 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.
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> Interesting. Sounds similar to a gantt chart (
http://en.wikipedia.org/
> wiki/Gantt_chart), but those are usually represented with bar-graphs
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>> Once this was
>> all done, the goal seemed alot easier to complete.
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> Thanks for the links. Is this your site?
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That is not my site, I just refer there as my current best link on the
subject, a link which could probbly be improved. That page has good
information on the subject of goals though.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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
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