Why Chase Perfection? This Other Pursuit Serves You Best
20 lessons from Rob Moore β Playing for the long-run
In this life, things don't just happen. You work to make them happen. Sure, you already know that.
We well captured this one of lifeβs often inconvenient truths in nursery class β "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride." Indeed, if merely wishing could make things happen, then even the poorest and idle people will always have what they wanted.
Career-weeks are annual events in many schools. There, students stage-act their future chosen professions.
Aspiring engineers wear hard-hats and sized-to-fit work clothes. Doctors and nurses "to-be" don white hospital uniforms with stethoscopes slung around their necks. Similarly, other students use profession-specific tools to dramatize their future career aspirations.
So enthused, we learned that those who failed to plan and prepare are inexorably planning and preparing to fail.
Unfortunately, many of these aspirants get stuck in the preparation stage.
Why do underachievers often get stuck in paralysis through analysis? Discouragement will immobilize you if all you do is compare your present starting phase to your future dreamed-of self.
