A juxtaposition of two quotes:
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” --Aristotle
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”--Einstein
I'm sure there's the potential for a connection there somewhere, but I'm not feeling clever enough right now to fabricate it.
Do we really expect different results from habitual acts?
ReplyDeleteI know I sure don't.
Well if you made it a syllogism it would go something like:
ReplyDelete1-- Excellence is a habit.
2-- A habit is to do the same thing again and again (suppressed premise)
3-- Insanity is to do the same thing and expect different results.
4-- Insanity is a habit you expect different results from (from 2 and 3)
Therefore:
5) If you're excellent and you expect non-excellent results you're insane (1 and 4)
If you're not excellent and you expect excellent results you're insane (negation of 5)
So, I guess the take home message is if you're not excellent you should get used to it--or you're insane.
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ReplyDeleteHahaha. Thank you, Dan.