> Does it really matter who said it? IMHO, it still a good definition for insanity, doesn't everyone agree???
Well, George, I for one don't agree. I've known a number of folks with varying forms of mental illness, and none of them exhibited the symptom of repeating something expecting a different result.
And yes, it does matter who said it. It's a fairly safe assumption Einstein would NOT have made that statement, but somebody thought it would sound wiser if it was attributed to a smart person. Would it have the same impact if it was attributed to, say Gerald Ford? (You'll recall that ole Jerry played college football in a leather helmet, and sometimes it showed.)
Now I don't think it's a particularly bad adage, even if it does fly in the face of "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again". But I think we can all think of examples of when we tried the exact same thing N times and it failed, only to succeed on attempt N + 1.
That said, there are certainly cases when something fails enough that it's time to call it quits and try something else. Supply-side economics, for example: Trickle-down economics was tried at the federal level three times and failed miserably. And it's been attempted at the state level, failing each time. Yet there are those who insist it's gonna work NEXT TIME.
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