When people are bad at math, they know it, because they get the wrong answers on tests. But when people are bad at open-mindedness they don’t know it. In fact they tend to think the opposite. (Paul Graham, What You Can’t Say)
No todos estan dispuestos a cambiar. Especialmente los cambios que son drasticos.
El director de la pelicula El Padrino, Francis Ford Coppola peleó con Paramount1:
Paramount never wanted to work with Brando, but Coppola wanted him from the beginning. They wanted the film to be set in the 70s, with hippies, to be current, cheap, and attractive to audiences. Coppola fought for a period piece. These are just two of the major fights fought and won over the course of The Godfather’s journey. Your fight may not be for Brando, and you may not even be right every time, but having faith in your gut is as important as any learned skill. If you’re writing an original screenplay, as opposed to an adaptation, compromises may pop up in other places, like in terms of budget or marketability. Of course, films are collaborative and flexibility is necessary, but when you truly believe a decision is right for your film, don’t back down.
Cal Newport sobre generar cambios en un espacio de trabajo:
Like from a mathematical game theory point of view, it’s a suboptimal nash equilibrium. It’s not the right place, not the right way to run this, the utility value of this configuration is low, but no one individual can deploy a different strategy that’s going to be higher value. We’re stuck in it, right? And so now it And so now it becomes really hard for an individual just to say, I want to check my email less often. It’s built in systemically into this hyperactive hive mind workflow and the only way to break free from the suboptimal configuration is to basically have the organization itself do like a really high cost change to the rules of the game.
Paul Graham en What You Can’t Say menciona:
The prohibition will be strongest when the group is nervous. The irony of Galileo’s situation was that he got in trouble for repeating Copernicus’s ideas. Copernicus himself didn’t. In fact, Copernicus was a canon of a cathedral, and dedicated his book to the pope. But by Galileo’s time the church was in the throes of the Counter-Reformation and was much more worried about unorthodox ideas.