People — and I am habitually guilty of this — can talk about dreams and plans like they’re opposites, or mutually exclusive. I suspect in truth they’re more interdependent. A plan without a dream seems like it would be hard to sustain, and a dream that comes true without a plan probably wasn’t the most ambitious dream.
Mentioned this before, but seems relevant. If you turn on the radio and you hear a song you hate, do you:
a) whinge and moan about how awful the song is, how overplayed it is, how trite the lyrics are, how over-rated the band is, and then listen to the whole song, complaining the whole while, gripe about the station’s playlist in general, and keep coming back to that station day after day, just to verify for yourself that it’s still awful;
Limpid Lizard over 4 years ago
More of Mallet’s “Stuff That Sounds Profound But Is Really Just Meaningless Pretentious Crap.”
Ceeg22 Premium Member over 4 years ago
But he does have a plan, you apparently missed that part of the conversation
Old Girl over 4 years ago
No, a plan comes after the dream. Does anyone find logic in this thread?He must be writing this stuff while brushing his teeth.
sandpiper over 4 years ago
Suggestion: read it again. While it makes good sense, perhaps it would have been clearer had Mallet swapped nothing with dream.
asrialfeeple over 4 years ago
The plan involves how you’re going to get there.
Uncle Bob over 4 years ago
If you can dream it you can do it, kiddo. Or at least a goodly part of it. If you’re willing to pay the price to make it come true…
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 4 years ago
I have a plan. I heard that the 2nd million is way easier than the 1st, so I’m just going to start off working on the 2nd million.
Flatlander, purveyor of fine covfefe over 4 years ago
I’m working on my second million, the first was a dismal failure.
Bilan over 4 years ago
A plan is how to create the dream – but drastically scaled down to reality.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 4 years ago
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People — and I am habitually guilty of this — can talk about dreams and plans like they’re opposites, or mutually exclusive. I suspect in truth they’re more interdependent. A plan without a dream seems like it would be hard to sustain, and a dream that comes true without a plan probably wasn’t the most ambitious dream.
childe_of_pan over 4 years ago
Mentioned this before, but seems relevant. If you turn on the radio and you hear a song you hate, do you:
a) whinge and moan about how awful the song is, how overplayed it is, how trite the lyrics are, how over-rated the band is, and then listen to the whole song, complaining the whole while, gripe about the station’s playlist in general, and keep coming back to that station day after day, just to verify for yourself that it’s still awful;
or
b) listen to a different station