You are correct in saying that what motivates me is complex.
Most people have no idea the factors I must take into account.
Sometimes we must take a rather circuitous route to our objectives.
...and "no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy."

One of the lessons my granddaddy taught me is that you plant more seeds than you need because many of them will not even sprout. There's an old farmer's saying:

One for the worm,
One for the crow,
One to rot,
And one to grow!

Check out Doc Brown's science lab sometime...

Or remember James Bond visiting Q's lab...

Yeah, it's pretty much like that.