When I feel for the word perfection there are a variety of ideas and images.\u00a0 That which can\u2019t be bettered,<\/i> is the first.\u00a0 A cake that comes out of the oven with perfect symmetry, texture and taste. If you are as old as me you may remember the name Nadia Comaneci.\u00a0 She was a young Russian Olympian at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. A gymnast. Her performances were extraordinary.\u00a0 She was the first person to ever receive perfect scores for her routines. She nailed those performances.\u00a0 I was only a child at the time, but I remember holding my breath as I watched her.\u00a0 She floated through the air and landed with surety, precision and fluidity.\u00a0 Her performance held no visible flaw.\u00a0 The beauty and grace in her were stunning.\u00a0 (She\u2019s on U-tube) For me she epitomised the word, Perfection.<\/p>\n
As the years have gone by my ideas on perfection have received a bit of a shake up. We love to have systems for measuring this objective of perfection.\u00a0 What is so good about perfection anyway?\u00a0 Why do we obsessively strive towards this idea of doing something perfectly.\u00a0 What\u2019s the pay off?\u00a0 There is always a pay off…… Are we searching for the accolades of those around us.\u00a0 Peers, friends and family, global audiences.\u00a0 There is a wow factor in perfection.\u00a0 Did you see what \u2018they did?\u2019 Or is it some hardwired drive to see what we are capable of? How far we can take an activity.\u00a0 Push it to the extreme. It becomes some sort of personal crusade. Like the deep sea divers who see how far they can dive without oxygen as a sport.\u00a0 They are on the edge. Is it the excitement of being on the edge? Are they chasing the feeling of the thrill? Or just seeing what is possible?<\/p>\n
And what of the arts? Have you ever heard a piece of music played and felt, aaaah, there is perfection. So is it technical perfection that you are hearing?\u00a0 Not a note played incorrectly. In my world this does not necessarily equate to perfection. Technical perfection may well have a particular type of beauty, but if you offered me the same piece of music played with the odd technical mistake, but from soul (ie the performer was deeply IN the piece and I could feel that they were emotionally moved \/ involved) then I would take that every time.\u00a0 So, at times perfection is in the eye of the beholder. Like a sunset.\u00a0 Ooooooh, look at the sunset.\u00a0 The colours are vivid and sheeting over the sky.\u00a0 What about tomorrow night\u2019s sunset and the one after? How is it that one is better than another? Can there be a perfect sunset?\u00a0 Perfection duplicated over and over in different form.\u00a0 It\u2019s all perception.<\/p>\n
How about this as an idea? Errors are perfection. What?\u00a0 How can errors and perfection line up in the same sentence? Errors are on the same road as perfection.\u00a0 They are the necessary precursor to any activity continuing on in a manner that improves. Consider an artist; a painter.\u00a0 They begin learning how to mix colours and then replicate then faithfully over subsequent days, then they may learn how to use their different brushes and create particular effects, next may be the teachings on how to create depth in a picture.\u00a0 All of these learnings require practice and inevitably there will be many times that the student cannot match the teacher.\u00a0 Are they flawed, inadequate and less than? No.\u00a0 They are learning and each day their current perfection rises.<\/p>\n
Each day your current perfection rises………<\/i><\/p>\n
Perfection is simply being your very best in the moment. One man\u2019s perfection is another man\u2019s beginner. There may be a day coming where a new bench mark is created that is your own personal threshold lifting higher or a global bench mark.\u00a0 People strive to reach their perfection just as Nadia did. Have you had an experience of perfection?\u00a0 Or do you need others to verify your competence?\u00a0 It\u2019s all just perception. When Nadia Comaneci completed her performance the judges faced an interesting dilemma.\u00a0 The score board provided no opportunity to record a 10.\u00a0 There was no prior perception of a performance of that level. They had to record 1\u2019s on the board!\u00a0 She outstripped all sense of what had been possible. She was just doing her best!<\/p>\n
OK, so how is this blog today?\u00a0 It is perfect?\u00a0 Have I reached you?\u00a0 Did you learn something? ………he he……….<\/p>\n
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