MINDSET - The Reason Why "Good Enough" Is Better Than PERFECT

Instead of perfection, focus on progress. Instead of having something done perfectly, focus on just getting it done. From there, you can edit, build, grow, and develop it to exactly what your vision is.

Here we find as good a general strategy for balancing obsession and perfectionism as I’ve seen: Give yourself enough time to produce something great, but not unlimited time. Focus on creating something good enough to catch the attention of those whose taste you care about, but relieve yourself of the need to forge a masterpiece. Progress is what ma

the world doesn’t reward perfection. It rewards productivity.

A popular idea in Silicon Valley is “Done is better than perfect.”10 The sentiment is not that we should produce rubbish. The idea, as I read it, is not to waste time on nonessentials and just to get the thing done. In entrepreneurial circles the idea is expressed as creating a “minimal viable product.”11 The idea is, “What is the simplest possible

The writer Rebecca Solnit puts it well: “So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it’s also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun.”

People want a feeling of progression, and if we aim for perfection, we’ll fail, because perfection is so far away. So instead of perfection, let’s have a little progression, just a little, and that will make us feel good. So, let’s identify the basics, get them right and then next week ask ourselves,

from a conventional viewpoint, perfection doesn’t exist — excellence is the best we can achieve, and achieving it takes time and practice.