Something New Every Day

Stories and essays on identity, creative thought, and everyday common sense.

Everyone in charge knows what they’re doing

Everyone in charge knows what they’re doing is my favourite lie. The reason it’s a lie is because people are only human, they learn, they make mistakes and last but not least they follow process without questioning if there’s a better way of accomplishing the same task. If you ask the majority of people in charge why they do the things they do? They’ll answer with the following line.

It’s always been done that way. I’ll leave you with one final quote.

“The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history. ” -Georg Hegel.


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