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Perfection in Anything is Poison

The idea of having perfection in anything is poison. Because it will either slow you down or even worse, will stop you. In life, of course, but especially in business.
Whenever you want to do something perfect or wanna be perfectionist. Remember few things.
  • Perfection is a lie.
  • Perfection is your perception.
  • You will never get anything perfect.
  • If you ever got anything perfect, it is because you thought it to be perfect. Not because it was actually perfect.
  • Market or world doesn't reward perfect.
  • Perfect will make you slow or even worse, will make you stop.
But the question is how to get this kind of thinking out of our heads?
 Answer is simple. How to not be perfectionist? Aim to be an imperfectionist. It means you don't try to get anything right, you don't try to do it right or perfect. You just aim to do it. And just improve it by a bit next time. Then on next rep you improve it a bit and so on. Purpose is to do it and suck at it. Then suck little less, then suck even lesser than that. After that you start to get little good at it. And then little more good. Then after several reps you get better and so on and on. Aim to be imperfectionist. The best saying I have in mind is of Elon Musk, "Assume we're already wrong. The goal is to be less wrong." So, focus on progress and never perfection.

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