Maybe this should be subtitled The Harder You Try the Bigger the Fall? In any case, this is an outstanding discussion of why, when push comes to shove, “perfectionism is the enemy of the good.”
This TVWriter™ minion feels heaps better about her lack of perfection now. (Well, okay, maybe not heaps but at least a tad.)
by Thomas Curran & Andrew Hill
It was Voltaire who said: “perfect is the enemy of the good” – and he should know. A strident critic of existential perfection, Voltaire spent much of his working life attacking the notion of a world imbued by flawless divinity.