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We Need Quantity To Find Our Way to Quality

Mastery is achieved through practice and practice brings us close to perfection

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Ali Hall
Jul 30, 2023
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“The best is the enemy of the good.” - Voltaire

In our quest to be the best at something, we become consumed by finding a way to be the best that we forget to practice what we actually want to be the best in.

Perfectionism is self-sabotage; it lures us into a state of inertia. It freezes us in a place of planning and strategising but not actually doing.

The process of learning and improving revolves around repetition. Repeating behaviour and practices is the only way to learn from our mistakes and grow through experience, trial, and error.

“The bridge between knowledge and skill is practice. The bridge between skill and mastery is time.” - Jim Bouchard

Focus on quality, and this happens

Luckily I’m not a perfectionist. I manage to produce a high quantity of work of adequate or good quality. My husband, on the other hand, is a perfectionist. He is trapped in the mindset that whatever he does has to be perfect. This perfectionism squanders his quantity,…

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