Give up on being perfect. Here is why:
‘… Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great, ever came out of imitations. What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.’
If you want to become the person you were created to be, you must give up on being perfect.
‘The perfect student can never step outside the safe box of the right answer, can never take a flyer on the honorable failure that may be more compelling than the safe paper that gets an A.
What perfection requires is a kind of lockstep. Look at that word; imagine it in your mind’s eye, the focused match of the fearful, the physical opposite of the skip and the jump. Doesn’t it sound like something to avoid at all costs?’
‘Perfection is static, even boring.’
‘Pursuing perfection makes you unforgiving of the faults of others.’
Source: Anna Quindlen, Being Perfect
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