"Shouldn't we take a right turn?"
"... well, we've been going West for a long time, we can't give up now!"
It seems to me that a lot of approaches get stuck going in one direction like that. People don't seem to like to re-evaluate. They don't even seem to like to consider re-evaluating.
I tend to believe that all options should be valid for evaluation, even those that are pretty much guaranteed to be dismissed. I think the win of laying out all options (even the dumb ones), is that a deliberate decision is reached for a reason, as opposed to just left nebulously behind.
Often during re-evaluation, we can realize that circumstances have changed and those reasons to not take a particular approach (or why the current was chosen) are no longer there. If we don't look around on a regular basis, we never get a chance to make better decisions.
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