But I should caution that if you seek to plot out all your moves before you make them–if you put your faith in slow, deliberative planning in the hopes it will spare you failure down the line–well, you’re deluding yourself. For one thing, it’s easier to plan derivative work–things that copy or repeat something already out there. So if your primary goal is to have a fully worked out, set-in-stone plan, you are only upping your chances of being unoriginal. Ed Catmull
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