Determination comes first; planning comes
later. It is never the other way round. While the determination is a matter of
the heart and the decisive intellect sharpened through experiencing and
experimenting; planning, more or less, is heartless and can be easily
facilitated by the trivial intelligence possessed by us, which may be sourced
out of flawed premises and casual impressions.
Decisive
intellect is the outcome of the perpetually operative review process of one’s
own internal strength pitted against the external circumstances. The external
circumstances are always volatile, but one’s internal strengths are rooted
deep. One can hire someone who can plan better than him. One can also hire
someone more determined than him to accomplish the same task as the one chosen
by him; but, it is well-nigh impossible to believe that an outsider will or may
agree to sell his determination at any cost.
The
intention is not to undermine the importance of good planning; it is only to
emphasize that no amount of good planning can ever replace the internal
commitment to accomplish a task. What has not been said here is that no human
being can ‘internally commit’ himself to a task that is not consistent with
humanity.
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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