Beauty can be precise without being perfect.

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Precise means every element is exactly where it was meant to be. Perfect means nothing is out of place by an external standard. A slightly cracked glaze, a voice that breaks, a hand-drawn line: these are precise about what they are doing and nowhere near perfect, and they are better for it.

When judging your own work, ask whether it is doing exactly what you intended rather than whether it is flawless. Those are different questions and only one of them is worth chasing.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Where does your pursuit of perfect stop you from finishing?

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