http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/03/how_to_be_an_ex.html
I thought this was somewhat interesting. I really liked this quote:
But the most troubling–and where we have the most leverage–is with the amateur who is satisfied with where they are. These are the folks who you overhear saying, “Yes, I know there’s a better way to do this thing, but I already know how to do it this [less efficient, less powerful] way and it’s easy for me to just keep doing it like that.†In other words, they made it past the suck threshold, but now they don’t want to push for new skills and capabilities.
I so hate that attitude in myself, we tell ourselves this sometimes because of the point of dimishing returns for us is reached, but still, it gets to me when I hear myself say that.