Enough with perfection

We have gotten too accustomed to seeing the polished image. I think the process, the evolution of practice, is more interesting and useful.

Before I thought it was better to get things ready and then slowly show them. But that is controlling. It is believing one can have certainty in what one is doing.

So many times I will see this apparently perfect business. It gets popularity and then it shuts down within the year. Too much time and focus has been put in the polished image and not in what it is and can become.

Professionalism is often the reason for this perfectionism. People believing that if it’s a bit rough with mistakes and so on, that it is not professional enough. This reflects a belief of ‘getting there’ but in fact we don’t ever ‘get there’.

What if we embraced the process? That we showed every step, every experiment? That we can gain more value in the development and practice than the outcome.

I no longer worry about not ‘looking professional’. The interest is seeing how someone develops, evolves over time. What is their capacity to grow? What is their capacity to learn? This to me is more interesting.