Eyes Above The Waves

Also in a way, success is built on failure, you need to fail a number of time in order to progressively learn how you could succeed at the end. Not enough failure means not enough learning. Working this way is OK as long as you don't go so far as the Shadok do, cf http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/apache-asserts/2010/09/shared-neurons-and-the-shadoks-first-law-of-failure/index.htm

The only reliable source I could find for that quote was most certainly no Einstein- rather, it was Rita Mae Brown, a fairly extreme lesbian feminist. I imagine a lot of the people who unthinkingly parrot that quote as something that must be profound because Einstein said it would think twice about it if they had any idea about the real source.

Doing 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. FOR EXAMPLE... timing a ball dropping from ten feet, getting the same result 100 times, and still expecting the time to change on the 101st drop. 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. And remember, by same that means exactly the same. You can't do something the same but a little different or it's not the same. 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. They are wrong. 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. To repeat the exact same movements and expect to make it would be insane. 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. 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... Insanity Definition 4 (Dictionary.com) 4. a. extreme foolishness; folly; senselessness; foolhardiness: Trying to drive through that traffic would be pure insanity. b. a foolish or senseless action, policy, statement, etc.: We've heard decades of insanities in our political discourse.

What is the actual word for that definition?

Every time you try again u have to make slight changes. If u do things in an identical manner the results are usually always the same . there must be some variables and constants

I get up everyday at the same time I go to work i get off the same time I go to bed at the same time the outcome is always the same. I get the same paycheck am I insane? Fuck no. It means it is what is is.