Best practices are rarely the best — they're mostly just cargo cult common practices.
And as more people adopt them, the more mediocre they become.
The best is usually what most people aren't willing to do.
Jason Friedx.comBest practices are rarely the best — they're mostly just cargo cult common practices. And as more people adopt them, the more mediocre they become. The best is usually what most people aren't willing to do.
If you do what everyone else does, you’ll get the same results that everyone else gets.fn2 Best practices aren’t always the best. By definition, they’re average.
Shane Parrish • Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
An underrated way to succeed at anything is simply to be ten times better.
Everyone wants to have a unique idea or be a monopoly but you can just be ten times better instead. In a lot of areas, no one is really trying. The world is coated with a film of inertia.
Simon Sarrisx.comBe skeptical of “best” practice. In his book The Power of Moments, Chip Heath cautions, “Beware of the soul-sucking force of ‘reasonableness.’” Conventional wisdom and industry best practices will homogenize, not differentiate.