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The No. 1 Flaw Of Those Who ‘Fail’ Einstein’s Test Of Sanity
It was Albert Einstein who said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results.
Typically, this is a no-brainer.
It’s common sense to do something else or change the approach if what you’ve been doing makes you sad or isn’t yielding the results you want. Yet, by putting insanity in the same sentence with repeating-while-expecting-different-results, Einstein didn’t just say “repeating mistakes is bad”, he also sets a litmus test for sanity but then raised the bars so high that we’re all doomed to fail.
For one thing, what we see as common sense is idealism because for the most part our brain is, disappointedly, not wired to learn from mistakes.
The Problem With What We Think Should Be Common
It’s difficult to not think about ‘intelligence’ whenever the name Einstein pops up. We owe a lot to him about our understanding of the world. As a physicist, Einstein operated in a field that obeys laws, a field where cause and effect are observable, and changing the effect is as simple as changing the cause.
Physics has many constants; mess with them and things fall apart. In physics, your output 100% depends on your input, so that anybody armed with the same…
