the danger of perfection.

The closer we get to the election, the closer I’m seeing something that makes me sad. It’s the loss of practical for the illusion of perfection.

It’s not just the election but it is a clear example.

We don’t have a perfect system. There are no perfect candidates. This is not a perfect government. It never will be.

We can’t get so lost in the perfect that we deny the practical. The practical is that there are two candidates with different policies that will affect millions of people and simply backing out of the practical for the perfect, is, in a sense cowardly.

Again, this does not just show up in politics. Elizabeth Gilbert said years ago that perfectionism is just fear dressed in high heels. I absolutely love the quote.

Whatever it is… your art, your business, your marriage, your kids, our politics for sure… we can’t let our pursuit of perfect distract us from the very real practical decisions that come before us every day.