Humans are all weird. Our limit is at functionality.

We won’t change anything as long as it is functional.

There is even a saving called “don’t fix it if it ain’t broke.”

I experienced it first-hand myself. My room is a bit odd-shaped rectangle, and moving furniture even a bit can have a huge impact on how much floor space I have available. So I moved my bed in such a way that I would have maximum floor space. I thought that would be good for me. But I have a habit of leaving stuff on the floor. Now due to bigger floor space, even if there’s some stuff on the floor, I could just walk via some route, and I just keep adding stuff on the floor and not cleaning them up as long as I could find a route. Then I realised, I will keep my room dirty as long as I can walk through it, I can get my stuff and it’s not unbearable. So I just changed my bed back to a position where I have less floor space, but if there’s even a single thing on the floor, I cannot just walk.

Now my room is way cleaner. Getting back to the point, we can see people not even leaving their partners because they are just comfortable enough. Our limits stop at the place where something is functional enough and we are comfortable. That’s why, to escape this, you have to have a higher definition of what constitutes as functional and significantly up your chase of excellence.

It’s not enough for something to just exist and be functional, if you are trying to get exceptional results from it. You have to constantly chase improvements that are unfathomably huge leaps.