The article explores the tension between planning summer activities and the inherent unpredictability of experiences. While planning serves an essential role in organizing family outings and ensuring logistics such as travel accommodations, it ironically sets expectations that can detract from the enjoyment of those experiences. The author emphasizes that human predictive abilities are often inaccurate, leading to disappointment when planned activities fail to meet expectations. Unexpected experiences can hold more value, subverting the limits of planning and fostering genuine enjoyment.
Planning limits what people experience and introduces expectations about how they'll experience it.
Human brains are predictive machines, but people are really bad at predicting how they will feel.
Many experiences can't be planned and actually become more valuable when they are unexpected.
Even worse, planning often makes it harder to have these positive experiences.
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