food for thought

i want to be able to look at a problem and see multiple angles. i dont want to pidgeon-hole myself with the first thing i think of. but its so hard to try and find another way around somehting that you've already figured out how to manouevre.

but what if you know that in your manouevre, certain events are more likely to take place than in other scenarios. you know you should carefully think out the steps of your plan, your attack, your design. you know you should find alternate routes. but once a way has been found, we rush to the mark heedless of inherent danger, seen in our own warnings and knowledge.

so what choices are we left?
fall back and lose all ground, and possibly the battle and the war?
or push forward with the same risks?
then what? similar outcomes, completely different tactics.