Risks Of Exposing Web Page Pixel Data To Web Appli.a foolish or senseless action, policy, statement, etc.: We've heard decades of insanities in our political discourse. extreme foolishness folly senselessness foolhardiness: Trying to drive through that traffic would be pure insanity.ī. Example.shooting slightly higher above your head, following through more than you did yesterday, flicking your wrist a different way to gain more consistency, etc.Ĥ. Perseverance isn't doing the exact same thing over and over again (although I guess you can still have perseverance and keep doing the same thing over and over again and not succeed) but rather staying dedicated to an end goal by continually making small (and sometimes big) changes that lead to goal attainment. To repeat the exact same movements and expect to make it would be insane. If you shot a basketball and shot a complete air ball you would ALWAYS shoot a complete air ball if you repeated the same exact movements. Quite a few people try to counter the common insanity statement by stating that you can and should get different/better results if you keep doing the same thing over and over again. You can't do something the same but a little different or it's not the same. I believe the overwhelming majority (although there are some really dumb people who might think that is the actual definition in the dictionary) of people who use the phrase, "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result" are actually meaning that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is one exemplification (synonym of definition) of the word insanity.Īnd remember, by same that means exactly the same. timing a ball dropping from ten feet, getting the same result 100 times, and still expecting the time to change on the 101st drop. Overall it's probably best not to use aphorisms in serious discussions :-).ĭoing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is an "EXAMPLE" of the word insanity as it is extremely foolish, senseless, and irrational. Of course, one must also avoid stubbornly sticking to a strategy which is not the best available. You see people fail by panicking and flailing, abandoning their best hope to try something, anything, and essentially self-destructing.
This is one of the themes of The Lord Of The Rings :-). When the best available strategy has a low probability of success, sticking to that strategy requires discipline, wisdom and courage. Would Einstein tell you to start choosing black tickets instead? Hopefully not! So you choose red tickets, but you don't win. Imagine you must regularly play a lottery which offers red tickets and black tickets, and red tickets have twice the probability of winning compared to black tickets. It's easy to see the fallacy using a thought experiment. Unfortunately it's often used to support a common and dangerous fallacy: that if you're trying something and it's not working, you must not be using the best strategy and you must try something else. The quote "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" is popular, being widely attributed to Einstein (probably incorrectly).
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