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It comes to mind that "proactive, planned" is arguably more ego-centric than "reactive", thus more likely fraught with the frustrations of egoism, e.g. agony of over "choice" (for you, know, having/being "free will"), missing the here/now for being mentally lost in modeling/planning future matters.

Spelled out a bit:

Q1: What do you need to do in advance of reactive job events?

A1: Next to nothing, because there's little to do until there's an event to react to.

Q2: What do you need to do in advance of proactive, planned job events?

A2: Model/anticipate the future, keep said mental models alive (see also: mind/memory entropy avoidance), plan for the possibility of varieties of combinations of event components, creating backup and/or "What if the Part D modeling was faulty?" plans - and then probably having to be reactive on various fronts anyway just because our modeling is often ego-biased for how much "proactive, planned" requires imagining being a free-willed self to begin with, etc., etc.

In a way, we're talking the difference between being "here/now" and being "there/then".

So, where/when do you mostly want to be? ;-)

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~mouse wrote (thread):

"So, where/when do you mostly want to be?"

Sat on the garden bench enjoying the sunshine with a clear conscious.

I think the issue is no actual forward planning done for 2 or more years, and same two years of predictable reactive (?) work.

Ruts get comfy. Or easy to hide in.