Game in the Brain

Its a surprise to me it is applicable to project management. I guess the thing about Art is that each project has a LARGE emotional investment when you are starting out, and you learn to divorce emotional investment as you start working. Emotions have to be managed and keenly focused in aspects that won’t affect your ability to make strategic decision making while executing the project.

1. Make more than One sketch. (Make more than one plan)
2. Take the opportunity of the additional sketches to try the other plausible strategies. (each plan must exploit different theoretical strengths and scenarios)
3. Visualize and plan out everything, maybe even write it down. (detail the scenario planning)
4. If possible make time to finish at least 2 at 60% using the 1/2 the time you have to execute your project to see how things go. (narrow down to 2 scenarios that encompass the key threats but are flexible enough to fix most of the potential ones).
5. Finish early and have some time remaining to sleep over what you have done, and enough time to make small alternations. (pre-ops check, don’t over think or over do)
6. When making alterations, list down what you want to do then ct it down to half or 1/3.

Do this repeatedly and accept the failures, despite personal standards of taste or perfection. Note that what counts most is the opportunity to practice and implement a learned skill/mindset/theory. Even if it costs a failure, the practice is very important, thus the opportunity to retreat to fight another day more is important. Choose the option which gives you more practice vs immediate success/failure until you are in a level