[fredrivett]

I think this is a good point I didn't convey in my hastily-written-in-10-minutes-blog-post-that-I-didn't-expect-to-reach-the-HN-front-page.

I can fall into perfectionism, but I find this a suboptimal mindset for healthy outcomes.

Excellence seems the far better path.

Keeping a high bar still, but not expecting something that's unreasonable.

Continuing to challenge yourself to get better, but not expecting yourself to have achieved something already that's out of your grasp.

For me it's about trajectory and momentum over perfection.

[mattgreenrocks]

Aim high, but have compassion for yourself as you push forward.

This is not embracing mediocrity, it is not disengagement, slacking, or merely rejecting perfectionism. It is understanding that the process of growth and improvement exacts a toll, and that growth is not always a pure function of time invested.