
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You’ve heard (or read) that Emerson quote before, no?
It’s typically uttered when someone doesn’t like following a certain way of doing things — what I call the Disruptor’s Credo — the perfect retort for the inevitable Defense Against the Dark Arts incantation “We’ve always done it that way.”
It’s not the consistency that’s questionable, though; it’s the foolishness. Mindless repetition without meaning or purpose? That’s the stuff of automatons.
Leonardo da Vinci wouldn’t have created a masterpiece had he followed what other artists had done or used a paint-by-numbers canvas. He created a new process and painted on poplar wood.
Process matters.
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