Two years ago, in a friendly chess championship which was the first one I participate in as a amateur chess player, at the age of fifteen I haven’t expected so much from it after only five months of experience against best chess players in Syria. The first game ended draw with an amateur player like me But in the next game, I played with a Professional A player who has spent at least 8 years in learning chess Before the beginning of the game, I was convinced with loosing, however, I played With the progression of the match that lasted over 40 minutes No player had an advantage over another But suddenly, now it is not suddenly my opponent made a mistake and gave me an absolute advantage and I was beginning to win. I didn’t understand how I could overcome this person that’s why I’ve spent 5 of the remaining 9 minutes of my time in thinking of the plot behind this move. Move after move, and my time started to run out, and I lost this game. Not because I couldn’t win at that exact time. but because I got nervous and made this naive mistake. and my expectation was different for the match. Who among you went in a similar situation? New situation we couldn’t expect it nor plan for it Since we were students at school, and we our study plans didn’t complete until we plan to achieve something and don’t stick with the exact plan. Feelings of stress and anxiety always dominate us. And our determination to work is reduced or gone. Just because we haven’t committed in the whole plan regardless it’s devastating effect on our mental health. of automatic practices that accompany this failure. Like feeling of uselessness and self-flagellation. but in return, in our daily lives, most of our work is without planning and we don’t face any problems in adapting. just because this stress doesn’t intervene to destruct the ability of innovation and adaptation.
The success after an unstable plan is not limited to these simple daily situations. If we back in history, we can find similar situations, but it had led to success. Like the first attempt to take-off an aircraft with a mechanical engine which ended in fail in the first try. But... or in the first attempt or plan.. But the second try, which was in the same day,it had succeeded. There are many stories about the failure of implementing the initial plan, but leading to success as a result. An intellectual school was established in Ancient Greece under the name Al-Rawaqieah in an essential message which means We don’t control what happens to us, but we do control how we react to it This was a summary for the reason between who succeeded and me. Although both of our initial plans didn’t work. My aim was playing the game and I was sure I would fail.
The other’s was to let the airplane take-off no matter how. Yes, the difference between us was that I couldn’t control my reaction to this situation. There are many stories about people whose their initial plans didn’t success Now. Okay, what will change in the next times? What we can change is surely not planning. It is well known that the basis of creativity is lack of planning. But planning is very important as we all know What we can change in the next times is to make a suitable plans for us. Taking in consideration that our ability to work varies from day to day. and we can develop a flexible plan that can be modified with the variables that may occur during the project implementation period. This is the flexible plan. leaving a space for the emergency events on the project implementation schedule. If I had not given up my absolute belief accumulated for seventeen years that I will never be able to speak in front of so many people, I wouldn’t be on the TED platform today for a speech I’ve planned it to be 7 minutes. But as you see, thanks.
