How about being a problem-anticipator instead of a problem-solver?

Here's a basic fact of life that people don't really discuss all that often, best I can tell:

• Most of the time, you have a plan for how something will go. This applies to work, to friends, to relationships, etc.

• Most of the time, that plan does not actually go that way.

As a result of this happening almost every second somewhere in the world, we often pla…