That’s a great perspective I didn’t think of earlier. It seems to me that humans are attracted to a sort of “conceptual perfection”, E.G. the kind of perfectio

That’s a great perspective I didn’t think of earlier. It seems to me that humans are attracted to a sort of “conceptual perfection”, E.G. the kind of perfection that the equation of a circle describes. It’s fine to use this as a guideline to achieve ever more accuracy but no such perfect circle exists in the real world. So, in my opinion, practices such as those mentioned in the article help ground us to realise that this form of conceptual perfection is meant to be a North Star to help our efforts to better humanity, but we must never literally try to achieve it. The overarching goal must always be to help humanity and not achieve perfection for the sake of perfection. On a tangent - if one ever finds oneself chasing literal conceptual perfection — as I have found myself doing in the past - it might behove one to take a step back and introspect if this is merely a distraction from some deeper issue within ourselves. It certainly was for me.