{"id":4552,"date":"2026-05-04T10:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=4552"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:49:06","slug":"a-fool-with-no-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/a-fool-with-no-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A fool with no plan&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Proverbs 4:1 KJV \u2014 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/amp\/s\/www.businessinsider.com\/executives-share-the-best-advice-they-got-from-their-dads-2015-6%3famp\">T.Boone Pickens on the best piece of advice his father gave him:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan any day,&#8221; he told Pickens. &#8220;And your mother and I think we have a fool with no plan. We think you&#8217;re wasting your time here in Stillwater. You&#8217;re not getting anywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His dad was right, Pickens wrote on LinkedIn in 2014. &#8220;I had to admit I wasn&#8217;t burning up the place.&#8221; But within a month of that visit, everything changed. He picked a track and switched his major. &#8220;I got a plan,&#8221; he says, &#8220;and I&#8217;ve had one ever since.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 4:1 KJV \u2014 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. T.Boone Pickens on the best piece of advice his father gave him: &#8220;A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan any day,&#8221; he told Pickens. &#8220;And your mother and I think we have a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/a-fool-with-no-plan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;A fool with no plan&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6508,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions\/6508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}