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Should you be perfect?

Sunny Singh on March 29, 2019

This article was originally published to my newsletter. In my personal branding article, I talked a lot about personal branding and the importan...
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George

I'm a firm believer that nobody is ever perfect. We all have areas for improvement and in reality, it's just life, we have imperfections we have things we want to change and improve on. The thing that some people don't realise life (and development) is a continuous class, you learn multiple things every day and apply that to your everyday life without even knowing it.

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Sunny Singh

Agree! Unfortunately when it comes to being a perfectionist, it stops you from releasing side projects and/or content even though it's most likely more than okay and you'll learn a lot more from other people's feedback. We all just keep improving continuously though like you said.

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KerushaG

Wow, that's such a powerful statement "Perfection is an excuse" !!! And it really resonates with me because I tend to then avoid or take really long to do complete something and get it reviewed.

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Sunny Singh • Edited

Glad to hear this resonate! I personally still have issues with this myself but it really does give a more realistic twist.