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It is totally reasonable that people act like that. They already have experience in how they solve their daily problems. So beside being highly unlikely to work
by erikb 15y ago
It is totally reasonable that people act like that. They already have experience in how they solve their daily problems. So beside being highly unlikely to work, new ideas also mean a cost of relearning old habits. This is a big cost and people don't want to do that. Actually we spent a lot of time and energy to not need to relearn our habits so often. Not having to pay this cost is luxury or maybe even goal of life to many people.
- helmut_hed 15y agoYes! Sadly most of the new "visionary", "creative" ideas people try to promulgate are, in fact, bad. Usually there's a reason things are done the way they are, and the complexities of the current system are hard to appreciate from the outside. So a bias against "creative" ideas may be entirely appropriate. Now, on the flip side, some creative ideas are awesome, and would be great, but no one knows about them, and everyone is tired of suffering through the 99% that are fiascoes, so they resist them. It's a pity, but the response is a reasonable one. Thus both the barriers to, and the rewards of, a truly groundbreaking innovation are high, and the innovator is called upon to do a lot of painful, frustrating, tedious selling of the idea.
- erikb 15y agoYeah it's really tedious to try to change something. It's a pitty people don't value the work you've put into getting something done at all. I also surprisingly saw, that people don't know how much trouble it is, because it tends to look so easy to get something great done.