Hearing about a debate on 'being perfect', I was reminded of a joke that was circulated on social media.
The preacher said, "There's no such thing as a perfect woman. Anybody present who has ever known a perfect woman, stand up."
Nobody stood up.
"Those who have ever known a perfect man, stand up."
One elderly gentleman stood up.
"Are you honestly saying you knew an absolutely perfect man?" he asked, somewhat amazed.
"Well now, I didn't know him personally," replied the little old man, "but I have heard a great deal about him. He was my wife's first husband."
Just as a spouse looks for a perfect partner, people expect others to be perfect. A boss expects her subordinates to be perfect and vice versa. Some people try to be perfectionists themselves though.
Nothing wrong in trying but one needs to be realistic.
Perfection is a concept. It's a moving target.
If someone misses two darts out of a hundred attempts on a bull's eye, perfection level to her may mean not over two darts missing out of a thousand and so on. For someone else it may mean, not over two darts missing out of a ten thousand attempts.
It's a continuous process of improvising (Kaizen as in Japanese industry) once own (skill sets) accuracy and precision in doing so. Precision is about hitting at the same place in each successive attempt within a certain defined and accepted range. Accuracy is about hitting at the right place.
It's no different than a football player hitting the ball at the right time with right force to get it into the goal post successfully with an improved strike rate.
It's about continuous improvisation in each experiment, meticulously learning from past mistakes or errors of self as well as others in order to minimize them with a stretch goal strategy in order to hit within a narrower range than the last time.
So rather than expecting others to 'Be Perfect', looking for the evidence of this approach of 'being precise but accurately as an on-going journey' can be called as the journey towards 'Being Perfect'.
Vince Lombardi Jr.rightly says, "Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence!"
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