Every 3rd generation the pendulum swings back. Are you more like your grandparents than you are like your parents?

not sure since i never got to know my grandparents much since they both died when i was  a kid

No, I'm committed to constant improvement.

I don't want to waste time either on re-inventing the wheel or by doing the same thing over again and expecting different results.

Both my parents and grandparents had good an bad ideas---and not so much of either that there is not sufficient room for improvement in my generation and the generations of my descendants.