There’s a saying, involving geese and sauce, that neatly captures the notion that if something’s good enough for someone important, it’ll be good enough for you (or me.)

It’s an observation based around observing someone’s behaviour - say something selfish, of that’s been proscribed (I dunno, like working from home or some such) - and seeing it, you decide if it’s fine for them… well, you can see where that leads. 

It led me to the thought of how the work I turn out for businesses might make me feel if it was applied to me. 

It’s an odd thought, admittedly, but some parts of my creative life involves creating materials for training, sorry, people development programmes. 

While I’ve not been in the class, I do spend time designing the visual parts to appeal to my best design instincts. 

I probably over-think this, but if I was on the receiving end at least it should appeal to the eye. 

Just because it’s not going to be a career-defining piece, making everything - including pitch decks and proposals - look their best is sauce for me. 

This idea, taken to it’s (il)logical extreme, you could argue that the only best-test way to determine if a brand identity or training programme would actually work, would be effective, would be to self-administer it. 

But that’s clearly not really possible, to sit outside yourself, detached-like, a brand results petri-dish.

With the exception (I think?) where self-administering your work, to test it effect or efficacy on yourself - is possible. 

Plenty of scientists (well, actually a few. Who are still alive) do that thing - use themselves as human guinea pigs.

Ingesting or injecting stuff in the belief (hope!) they can prove causes and effects. From cholera to ecstasy. 

Sometimes it really pays off, in innovative new cures, fame, Nobel prizes.

Good for them. I’ll stick to design, thanks. And sauce.