Perfection

The pursuit of perfection. Wow that is ambitious and it is also egotistical. The idea of perfection is very fleeting. Name one time in your life where everything went 100% perfect according to the plan. I bet you can't if you are really going to be honest with yourself. The pursuit of so called perfection reduces creativity and innovation because we are so focused on perfection, failure becomes not an option. When failure becomes not an option we close our mind, heart and soul off to what could be the greater possibilities.

Thomas Edison tried more than two thousand experiments to create the light bulb. Now think about it if he had the idea of perfection right off the bat he probably would have quit after the first one hundred experimental tests, but instead when Thomas Edison was asked by a reporter how it felt to fail so many times his answer was "I just found two thousand ways not to make a light bulb". What a great answer. Thomas Edison found perfection through his failures and we all can do the same. Too often though we let our ego's get in the way and when this happens our positive idea about perfection turns into a negative as soon as we hit our first failure. Nothing is learned along the way without failures. So ditch the idea of perfection and embrace the process of egoless learning on your way to becoming great, but not perfect.

Thanks for reading and as always your thoughts and comments are always welcome.