"Best Way"

Is there such thing as a 'best way' of doing things? Maybe 'yes', maybe 'no', maybe it depends on how we view it or maybe it depends on how well a 'best way' is preached to us. We cannot however deny the fact that there is a general rule to how everything is done, a specific procedure that everyone has to go through to achieve set objectives.
It could be a 'best way' of cooking rice, a 'best way' of ironing a shirt, a 'best way' of dressing or a 'best way' of addressing people. But really are these truly 'best ways'? In motorsport for instance, there is what is called a “racing line” or in some games a “best line”. It is said that the fastest route between 2 points is a straight line, hence the racing line is a line that builds on this and gives the best line around corners and straights to follow to hasten reach to the finish line. But is the “racing line” truly the best line?
Everything we do has a side effect, too much of water is bad even though water is believed to be the elixir of life. Too much food is bad, even though food is an essential for human existence. Even the air we breathe if taken at irregular patterns can hamper breathing. Karma is everywhere from good deeds to bad deeds, to doing, seeing, hearing, smelling and so on and on and in-exhaustively on.
Breakthroughs in science and technology bring about new technologies, new drugs and new ways of doing things that continuously make the previous 'best way' seem pre 1st century. Mobile phones, emails and the internet have made communication so easy that the 'best way' which used to be sending letters via a post-office is now almost obsolete.
We read books and see articles online where we see people discuss principles on the way we should live, the 'best way' to do business and the 'best way' to practice religion. But really all these are just people's opinions, principles that have worked for them. There is no doubt that some principles may work for others but are they necessarily the 'best ways'? Most are just opinions of the author, even the religious teachings are merely people's understandings of the Holy Books.
Records are shattered when new ways of doing things are found which always supersede the 'best ways'. Faster cars are made with an improvement on the current 'best way' of engine manufacture, new rules and laws are made when the previous laws become outdated and do not meet the needs of present circumstances. In the past, the best in safety is no longer the best because new bests come out to 'outbest' them and then these new bests have to stay a while until we are able to discover new bests that can 'outbest' them.
Sometimes you want to do something and are told its impossible, this is because the best is believed to have been  done and there is nothing one can do to improve on that. That's why when Tata motors wanted to build the Tata Nano, the engineers and researchers were told to “Question the Unquestionable”. This could mean going against the norms and the perceived 'best way' of car production, it could mean doing the impossible and it could equally mean stretching the limits of human imagination to get what they want. I use the word “could” because it could equally mean otherwise.
So now I'll ask again, is there a 'best way'?
The 'best way' thing is a circle that would continue to revolve round and round without end and it finally comes down to us what we perceive to be the 'best way' of doing what we do or what we are about doing.
The hard way is the only way for those who refuse to seek other ways, likewise the 'best way'.

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