How to tie your shoes

Terry Moore: How to tie your shoes | Video on TED.com

Terry spent 50 years tying his shoe laces the wrong way and showed the world a better way to do it. I have tied my shoe laces wrong for almost 40 years.

It illustrates a bigger picture than tying shoe laces. Many of our practices may have been outdated or outright wrong but we surrendered ourselves to the less than ideal results. There can be many reasons why something you have been doing ever since is failing to yield better results. Circumstances change and newer practices may have evolved. What is key is to recognise such opportunities for improvements and take active steps to test and incorporate the new method.

I have just tied my left shoe with the new method and my right with the old. Will you change how you tie your laces?