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The Pain of Perfectionism
- mitchbob 1y agohttps://archive.ph/ux1vt https://archive.ph/ux1vt
- WarOnPrivacy 1y agoIn my experience, a quest to be perfect is a quest to be simple and thoughtless. When perfection is assumed (typically w/o evidence) to be the best outcome, it dismisses the need for evaluation and consideration. Collateral damage is an acceptable cost by default and nuance is a distraction to be buried. I think perfect can be well compared to a rainbow's end. It is a mirage, seen only at a distance but can not be traveled to. It is nowhere and nothing. Lastly, perfect is not the same thing as best. And even best is (at best) a broad indicator of where a better outcome might be. It has value as a direction to go. Perfect has not even that.