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A surprisingly powerful indictment of conventional wisdom, best practices & “that’s the way it has always been.” An illustration of the importance of challenging assumptions to take a first principle approach. It’s short, sad, funny & not a waste of time:

Five Wet Monkeys

Jeff Bridges telling the story of Five Wet Monkeys from The Contender. Explains why new ideas are always shot down, why we accept the status quo, why it's a...

3:29 PM · Oct 25, 2022 from Bend, OR

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I feel like I want to give up explaining "who moved my cheese" for this 5 apes analogy ... but that would mean not doing things the way they've always been done.

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I do like that book.

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Good story I like the fish baking version. Someone in the comments mentioned it

thespoke.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au

The fish baking story: beliefs behind your practice - The Spoke – Early Childhood Australia's Blog

A little girl was watching her mother prepare a fish for dinner. Her mother cut the head and tail off the fish and then placed it into a baking pan. The little girl asked her mother why she cut the...