Why do people do things over and over again that just don’t work? Take Zvi Cohen for example. He is astonished by his wife’s way of keeping a schedule. Batya uses an enormous wall calendar to keep track of all of her appointments. The calendar hangs on the kitchen wall where she can see it easily.
Zvi finds the system ridiculous: “What if you’re in the car and you need to check the address or telephone number for the appointment? All the information is on the wall in the kitchen! How is that going to help you?” Batya responds that this is never an issue for her. Once she has written the information on the calendar she is good to go.
The scheduling process is not a problem. What is a problem is the conversation that Zvi and Batya have with each other several times a week every week of the year for decades on end whenever Batya marks an entry on the calendar. It goes like this:
Zvi: “I can’t believe you’re doing that again! Why don’t you use a device or at least a notebook?”
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