“Inefficiency and unreasonableness are where a lot of great things happen.”

—Gabe Anderson — musician and blogger

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Many of us idolize efficiency — streamlined, optimized, predictable. But strip away inefficiency, and you lose the spark that makes life exciting and original.

Innovation rarely shows up on time. It often lives in the chaos, half-baked ideas, and the unreasonable demands that make everyone roll their eyes — until it changes everything.

World-shifting discoveries often sprout from the fertile mess of “This Makes No sense.”

Efficiency can polish what already exists; unreasonableness creates what’s never been seen. Maybe our obsession with smooth processes is actually dulling us. The next breakthrough won’t come from a spreadsheet — it’ll stumble in, dripping with glorious inefficiency.

EXERCISE:

Where in your world are you expecting greatness to punch a time clock?

In what ways can you embrace inefficiency and unreasonableness as foundational elements of breakthroughs and innovations?