Most people are like this.

He doesn’t know what he’s trying to do, nor what the specific plan is, nor how the leader he’s dealing with right now might play a role in any part of his proposal.

When he asks for help knowing nothing, he can’t bring up any concrete issue—only a murky mess.

Even if the leader is willing to assist, they’ll likely say: You haven’t figured it out yet. Come back when you have.

If you want to close a deal and ask someone for a favor: you need to have calculated many things.

When someone can trade zero from their side for a hundred from yours, they’ve definitely designed that exchange.

You must have thought through what costs you nothing but means everything to them, and what costs them nothing but means everything to you.

And you know who holds the cylindrical blocks, who holds the cubic ones, and what model you’re going to build.

Everything has been planned out in advance by you.

If you don’t do this work, who’s going to step in and do it for you?

No one will.