Over planning is the designer's demise. In this world of uncertainty, it is not uncommon for control-freaks to exist. They make futile attempts to determine how their everyday interactions will play out. They try to set the agenda. Translate this stressful lifestyle to a design project. There would have to be a perfect method for carrying out the design process. Most of the time would be spent on theory rather than practice. In the end, you will only serve to hinder and frustrate yourself beyond belief. So, my advice to you? Cut loose. You're trapped in a box. Break that sucker down! Even if you start with a fairly vague and unfocused idea, it'll gain intent and direction through executing the design process, rather than wasting time with the naive illusion of control.
Revert to a childish state of mind. A while ago, I read that children are closer to genius than anyone else, simply because they have not yet been tainted with wordly ideas. So, please, discard your fanciful notions that life is carbon-based, gravity is a universal law, and that you like cats. All you need to know is that the world is a magical and wonderful place. RELEASE THE KID IN YOU. Now, I unleash you upon society, free of your common-sense and knowledge which only served to tether you to rationality. Be unpredictable. Be unique. That is your calling and your gift. Go, my son/daughter. Go to Greatness.
Good work is not rushed. Long have we suffered, my brothers, under the unforgiving heel of our academic masters. These Professors seek to administrate our every action under pain of the 'F'. Who gives them the power to designate the dreaded 'due dates'? They act as if ordained by the gods. But no more, my brothers. This day we fight! This day we will decide of our own accord when assignments are finished; it is proven fact that rushed work is a fool's work.
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