There’s an old familiar quote that says “insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”. It’s usually attributed to Albert Einstein but it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that if you try to achieve something over and over and have no success, you might want to take a look at your methodology. Presumably Thomas Edison took copious notes to justify thousands of attempts at the light bulb and in the end there was light so hey, he must have done something different along the way.

Just this afternoon I was looking up some stuff on my computer and I came across a picture I took of an old cork bulletin board in a condo. The kind you see in many condo lobbies and/or mailrooms and/or elevators; it looks like this: