Beware of Best Practices Breeding Into Complacency

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

– Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 – 1860)

When applied to methods and methodologies,

there is a fourth stage:

Complacency.

Complacency = habits = inertia.

A method not regularly questioned against the goal

becomes a constraint or limitation of itself

that inhibits versus propels us forward.