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Drawing a map of a country you've never visited and assuming the roads exist.
means The act of deciding in advance what to do, how, and when, before reality gets a vote.
from From Latin planum, a flat surface, via French plan, a flat drawing or diagram; the abstract sense of plotting future actions arrived in the 1700s, when a sketch became a strategy.
Pentagon proofNo battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
Planning fallacyHumans chronically underestimate how long tasks take.
Hidden valueThe thinking matters more than the document produced.