Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
There's a particular kind of failure that comes from deciding everything alone in your own head — the plan that seemed airtight until reality hit it from an angle you never considered, because nobody else was in the room to notice the blind spot. This proverb doesn't call that unlucky. It calls it predictable.
Many of us treat asking for input as a weakness, like it proves we couldn't handle it ourselves. But this verse flips that — plans succeed in the company of many advisers, not despite needing help but because of receiving it. Isolation isn't independence. It's usually just a blind spot waiting to happen.
If you tend to make big decisions alone, quietly, without ever really letting anyone else weigh in, this is worth taking personally. Not because your instincts are bad, but because even good instincts have blind spots that only other eyes can catch.
If you've been carrying a decision entirely alone, it might be worth wondering who — or what wisdom — you've left out of the room.
A short video on this is coming soon — for now, read on.