Perfectionism

The Spice of Life

Variety is the spice of life, so the saying goes, and this tension between consistency (and the efficiency it affords) and variety plays out in so many areas.

Perfect the Process

If your output doesn't need to be perfect, you can instead focus on optimizing the process.

Circus

Circus is a dance with failure. The performers who train every day to soar through the air on trapeze have fallen many times, so that when the time comes to do it for an audience, they'll hit their mark.

Moral Absolutism

The world is messy, and our attempts to paint it in black and white often fail to capture its complexity.

Windstorms

If you try to stand up perfectly straight in a windstorm, you'll topple over. Trying to maintain perfection, it turns out, makes you vulnerable.

Good Enough

Freeing ourselves from the Sisyphean pursuit of perfect.