Well I think it is a very fine balance between planning (deliberate),instinct (in-the-moment) and experience (the past). Malcolm Caldwell the author of "Blink" discusses this very point and highlights that "less can be more". I think that deliberate planning is to put us all at ease with facts/figures of any given situation, however situations are constantly changing on a by-second basis - they may be minute shifts but over time and added up they become quite major shifts. This is why it is also important to be courageous enough to use your gut instinct into the planning mix - and of course your past experience... So my conclusion is - PLANNING (THE FRUIT PIE) is helpful and important - even if it is just the process of going through it - what adds the cherry and cream on the top are INSTINCT and EXPERIENCE...

The thing about plans is that we draft a plan with whatever information we have at the time for the purpose of enabling completion of a project. If enough cicumstances change between initiation and completion, we have to adapt the plan, or it could potentially ruin the project. Sometimes we get so caught up with our plans, that we miss the forest for the trees. Kind of like technology - it's supposed to enable us to do our work more efficiently, but we grow so dependent on our devices that when they're down, we're at a stand still. many people feel lost when a wrench is thrown in the spokes of their plan - talk about self-defeating. I guess my slightly convoluted point is that we must all learn to be flexible or risk fracture.