{"id":112202,"date":"2018-08-31T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T21:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=112202"},"modified":"2018-08-31T14:58:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T21:58:12","slug":"dont-seek-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/31\/dont-seek-perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Seek Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perfection is Undesirable:<\/p>\n<p>In life, I think it is good to always have the spirit of improvement, however I think we need to be careful of the Cerberus (false ideal) of perfection.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This is my thinking:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In modern society, we have been suckered by consumerism to believe that we can purchase this notion of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153perfection\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. We seek the best lifestyle; a life of perfect bliss, endless bliss, with no pain, misery, or sorrow. Yet, what if it is pain, misery, and sorrow which actually makes life worth living?<br \/>2. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Perfect\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is not an objective thing we can measure. Thus the notion or concept of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153perfection\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is pure folly. And all notions of what is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bad\u00e2\u20ac\u009d comes from subjective taste and judgements.<br \/>3. If somehow we did achieve perfection, it would be the most miserable hell. Why? We wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have anything left to aspire towards!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thus we are tormented in two ways:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We are seeking a false happiness in the notion of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153perfection\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, which causes us a lot of stress, frustration, and misery.<br \/>2. Even if we achieved perfection, we would end up feeling miserable, because we would have no higher heights to aspire to.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>## What is the solution?<\/p>\n<p>Practical ideas:<\/p>\n<p>1. Always seek \u00e2\u20ac\u0153better\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153improvement\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, but only measure yourself against your own self-imposed ruler or yardstick. Or as Warren Buffet says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Judge yourself by your own inner-scorecard\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<br \/>2. When you come to the realization that perfection and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the best\u00e2\u20ac\u009d doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exist, you will be much more satisfied and happy with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153satisficing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (suffice + satisfy). For example you can still make really great photos with an 80% \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good enough\u00e2\u20ac\u009d camera. Or you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153best\u00e2\u20ac\u009d new phone. Or you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to seek the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153perfect\u00e2\u20ac\u009d car, home, or lifestyle. Seek tools which are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good enough\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and use the downsides as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153creative constraints\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to actually assist you to be \/more\/ creative!<br \/>3. By embracing imperfection, you will never be bored in your life. You can use your entire life to pursue a life of bricolage, tinkering, and experimentation. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll never discover the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ultimate answer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ultimate truth\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in life, because it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exist. And this is what makes life fun, interesting, and challenging \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the lack of clarity, the lack of order. We thus thrive in chaos, randomness, and in a world without meaning. *We have the power to create our own meaning in life!*<\/p>\n<p>Thrive on,<br \/>ERIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perfection is Undesirable: In life, I think it is good to always have the spirit of improvement, however I think we need to be careful of the Cerberus (false ideal) of perfection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-31-09.44.09-1.jpg?fit=4160%2C2340&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112208,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112202\/revisions\/112208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}