Planning ahead is something I usually do, specially when I am trying to plan a party or a nice thing to do with my friends. When I plan things I think about all the different alternatives I have and the ways the outcome can be different. As the book The Selfish Gene says “You set up a model in your head, not of everything in the world, but of the restricted set of entities which you think may be relevant”. (Pg 59) This is exactly what happens when I think ahead, I plan.
When you are planning something and see everything that can go wrong, you try to change it. In your mind you may be able to change it but when its time to actually act, it may no go as you thought it would. The text says something very closely related to this “In either case it is unlikely that somewhere laid out in your brain is an actual spatial model of the events you are imagining”. (Pg 59) Its as if you try to influence the outcome but its impossible to influence it the way you really wanted to. This happens sometimes when you want something to be perfect and you cant achieve it; your brain planning wasn’t good enough because it is “unlikely that somewhere laid out in your brain is an actual spatial model of the events you are imagining”. It is still a normal thing to plan ahead, I do it all the time, and it never goes the way I thought it would.
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