Comments on: Perfection: Why It’s Not Good Enough (and Why It’s Exactly What We Need)

By: Perfection: Six Word Fridays — the halfway point

Perfection: Six Word Fridays — the halfway point — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:09:43 +0000

[...] I wrote a post about perfection early in my blogging career. I equate perfection to Brigadoon (or Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory), though I think it’s even more imaginary. You can find it here. [...]

By: Happy: To Be or TBD? — the halfway point

Happy: To Be or TBD? — the halfway point — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:23:12 +0000

[...] ideal. And the ideal is a rarity in the land of the real. It disregards instincts, emotions and imperfections — three human attributes that contribute much to our growth and show no signs of getting [...]

By: Jenn

Jenn — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:35:21 +0000

I was thinking about writing an article on letting go of perfectionism. I love your point of view. There are reasons to keep it around. Thanks for a fresh perspective.

By: Madeleine

Madeleine — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:06:33 +0000

Belinda, I loved this post, and clearly you’ve provoked lots of interest. Personally, I’ve gotten a little better about pressuring myself to be perfect, and two things have helped me.

One is Toastmasters where every speaker has an evaluator who says what the speaker did well and offers a suggestion or two for improvement. So no mattter how wonderful a speech may be, there is always something one could do to make it even better.

The other is writing. From time to time, I’ve come across something I wrote a long time ago and thought “Wow, this is really good.” (Not perfect, but really good.) So perhaps some distance from our work helps us see it in a clearer light.

By: Justin Dixon- AlittleBetter.net

Justin Dixon- AlittleBetter.net — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:19:38 +0000

Our personal highest perfection is something we should chase hard after, but we must never let its pursuit stop us from moving forward.

By: Patrick @ unwrapyourmind.com

Patrick @ unwrapyourmind.com — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:54:43 +0000

The damn thing about perfection is that it just happens to us from time to time, and we admire it so much, yet have no clue how it came to us. That leaves us in frustration because we want it so much we want to be able to repeat it. But we need to understand, that like bliss perfection is something that couldn’t be created, it could only be experienced. And perfection is the point in time and space, when we realize that everything (with all its flaws) is indeed perfect – just not by our own definition of it, but by Gods definition.

By: Grace

Grace — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:38:24 +0000

Amen to Liberty!

By: Liberty

Liberty — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:34:17 +0000

Your writing is an example of perfection .

By: Miche - Serenity Hacker

Miche - Serenity Hacker — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:03:39 +0000

Hi Belinda, what an insightful post! I love the lists about what’s good about “perfect” and what’s not!

“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection” ~The Bhagavad Gita

I wrote a post about how we’re all just imperfect anyway, based on the famous quote by Wavy Gravy the clown.. this is my favorite quote on how we’re really all imperfect:

“We’re all bozos on the bus, so we might as well sit back and enjoy the ride.” ~Wavy Gravy

The post is here http://bit.ly/1G5KEJ
if you’d like to check it out. It wrote it when I was feeling the same way you’re feeling today, and couldn’t shake it. Writing the post was cathartic, actually! And was my homage to the imperfection inherent in each of us… we should celebrate it!

Cheers, and thanks for sharing this!
Miche

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:24:48 +0000

Perfection, to me, is *graceful* imperfection.