Excellence

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit" - Aristotle

The above quote was in an email that I received.

I am sure that something was lost in translating from classical Greek to English.

Surely just repeatedly doing something out of habit will not improve us in whatever we are doing. If we are to improve in doing something, surely how we do it must change. Continuing to do something in a manner because it was always done so, would still have us hanging from trees.

It is the PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) cycle - not just repeatedly Doing (the D part) - that will move us towards excellence.

Yes making the PDCA cycle a habit will lead to excllence.