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Execute With Speed — Advice From Sun Tsu
“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week” — George S. Patton Jr.
If you are like me, you spend excessive time each day envisioning audacious plans and schemes that you’d love to come to fruition.
There’s a sort of comfort in planning — it makes you feel like you are accomplishing something without taking any concrete action.
Don’t get me wrong — planning is an essential step to achieving even the most audacious of goals.
But often, what was a productive session that was preparing you to take action and avoid potential roadblocks becomes a monumental time-waster.
Master Sun Tsu, the famed Chinese military general, philosopher, and strategist, strongly advocated prioritizing speed over perfection.
Sun Tsu wrote the treatise The Art of War, a guidebook to initiating and conducting warfare in the most efficient way possible. Written in the 5th Century BC, it laid the foundation of modern warfare thought.
In his book, Sun Tsu had this to say about executing plans with speed:
