As far as we can tell each of us on the planet is unique.
It is not surprising then to learn that if we are faced with a task or have to solve a problem we don’t all take the same approach. On the one hand this is useful because it means that as a group or society or company we often have many different approaches available to us. The flip side is that as individuals many of us will tend jump into our own natural way of taking action. This is often so natural that it doesn’t occur to us to question whether we have the appropriate method for what we are doing. Take for example the following case concerning the activity of running and the injuries it produces.