Perfectionism
The Spice of Life
Variety is the spice of life, so the saying goes, and this tension between consistency (and the efficiency it affords) and variety plays out in so many areas.
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Letting go of perfect expands what we’re capable of.
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Perfect the Process
If your output doesn't need to be perfect, you can instead focus on optimizing the process.
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Circus
Circus is a dance with failure. The performers who train every day to soar through the air on trapeze have fallen many times, so that when the time comes to do it for an audience, they'll hit their mark.
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Moral Absolutism
The world is messy, and our attempts to paint it in black and white often fail to capture its complexity.
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Windstorms
If you try to stand up perfectly straight in a windstorm, you'll topple over. Trying to maintain perfection, it turns out, makes you vulnerable.
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Good Enough
Freeing ourselves from the Sisyphean pursuit of perfect.
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Wrong Notes
"It's not the note you play that's the wrong note – it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong."