Nassim Taleb’s book Antifragile explores the idea that some things become stronger and more resilient with disorder and stress.
Fragile things, in contrast, break when put under pressure.
So, what is antifragile planning?
I’d argue there is no such thing. What can be fragile or antifragile is instead your attitude towards your plans.
Some people make plans and then feel they either have to stick to them 100% or just give up when something, or enough things, go wrong.
They have fragile plans, because they have a fragile approach to life.
Others use plans in a way that makes them better able to handle pressures, stress, and disorder.
Your plans shouldn’t just be resilient to change, but should make you better when change happens.
Planning the day, or the week, or the year is not about laying out a set of things and then expecting them to happen in the order you’ve outlined. That may happen. When there aren’t pressures, stress, or chaos around you, the plan can be followed and lead to success.
But life may happen too.
And if you are antifragile, your plan will not only help you adapt, it will actually make it so that the changes are welcomed.
Because they make your day better than it could have been.
The tools you use to plan can contribute to having antifragile plans.
For example, it should be easy to rearrange your plan in response to shifts in the environment.
More than just being easy, it should come naturally to do that.
It should be easy to integrate what you learn into future plans.
More than just being easy, it should come naturally to do that.
One big reason more people don’t plan out their day is that the tools they use make it too hard to rearrange their plans or integrate what they learn into future planning.
So it’s harder for them to be antifragile when it comes to their plans.
Cue makes it easy to rearrange your plans, and naturally does so as you check things off. Cue also makes it natural to integrate what you learn into future plans by using scripts.
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