The problem is that most trainees would not have the discipline to use reactive training exclusively even if they had the knowledge to do this and if this could be said to work. Most of my notions of training have to do with training based on your ability at any given time while still having a structured overload and without things giving way to entropy, which, as you know, they will. Most plans that are moderately organized but left too open ended will eventually just fall into chaos. Not just because of lack of discipline but because the trainee cannot actually see patterns and structure in something that doesn't have structure as it's defining characteristic. It can be done! It just is much harder to learn.

It's easy to see why the kinds of plans I was complaining about in this article are so attractive. The appearance of structure is actually more important than the over-riding goal. People feel very successful on these programs because they are meeting a very easy to reach goal. Following a structured program!