Business
Exhaustive thinking and detailed planning done before a project starts is invisible to onlookers, so fast confident execution afterward looks improvised or reckless. The boldness people see is often the product of preparation they never saw.
People who reason only from common sense and avoid risk will call any ambitious plan wrong, impossible, or ignorant. Staying inside the fixed ideas that common sense supplies keeps a person from being creative, so a chorus of 'impossible' is not proof that something can't be done.
When you search for a way to do something hard, a way tends to appear. Failing to find a method usually means you stopped thinking too soon, not that no method exists.
Broad and deep knowledge can be gained outside formal education. A modest intellect can outperform better-schooled rivals by thinking harder, working harder, and acting with more courage and energy than they do.
Making speed the central goal, by cutting the time a task takes, is the surest route to getting better. Pressing to do things faster forces improvements that a relaxed schedule never would.
People with a strong will to succeed have unlimited potential, and pooling that drive across many people releases a nation-scale force. Ordinary hard-working labourers can thereby feel they built a share of their country's breakthrough.