After reading yesterday’s post about how “comfort is the enemy of progress,” a friend who is a designer wrote that he thought this is also true, “perfection is the enemy of progress.”
There is an old story about a ceramics professor who split the class in half. To one half the professor said if they produced only one perfect pot, they would get an A. The other half of the class was told they would be graded on the quantity of pots, not if they were perfect. The story ends with the second half of the class not only producing more pots, but many were considered to be more creative and of a higher quality.
What might you try in your life if you began that activity with no expectations, but simply choose to be fully present within that activity. What might happen if you choose presence instead of perfection as your definition of success?
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