What Happens When You Finally Stop Waiting for Perfect
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Why does waiting for “perfect” keep us stuck?
I'm going to make everything around me beautiful. That will be my life. Elsie DeWolf. Changing for the better is not about the creation of miracles. It's about choosing to see the ones that already exist. Life is hard. But coincidentally, hard things tend to be the gatekeepers to the important ones. We are let in when we bring ourselves finally to shake hands with and embrace the very things we once saw as the problem. Or as Ryan Holiday has famously put it, the obstacle tends to be the way. How funny, how counterintuitive, how upside down life can seem. But I think that's it. Sometimes it's not even that we're looking at the wrong things. It's that we're looking at the right things the wrong way. Avoiding the call to step further into the world and deeper into ourselves.
terrified of scraping our knees on the climb, we burden ourselves with the much more painful choice of staying at the bottom of the mountain and looking up. But the scars we've collected and will continue to collect on the way up, they do not make you less than. No, they are what make you beautiful. You see yourself and those scars as imperfect. I see someone who has lived, who has taken risks, fallen, and bounced back. I see character and wisdom and elegance and boldness. In an imperfect world, those quote-unquote flaws and scars may, funny enough, just be the closest thing to perfection we'll ever experience. It's from our courage to step out, our willingness to crack that we flourish. Living necessarily includes a deterioration over time, but a deterioration of the external because the internal, the soul, it stays young.
It's underneath that forever crumbling world around us that we find the divine. It is because of our scars, not to spite them, that we grow our wings. They aren't to be feared but coveted. You are more because of the mistakes you made, the challenges you faced, the adjustments you had to see through. And I believe our value increases with each tear and break. resembling the Japanese art of kintsugi, where a pot that breaks and is put back together with golden lacquer holds more value than the original unblemished piece.
How do obstacles become the way forward?
See, Wolf says, I'm going to make everything around me beautiful. And I think this simply calls for an optical adjustment A shift in relations between things and how you perceive those things. Me, I don't want the whitest, cleanest, newest shoes. As far as I'm concerned, there's very little beauty to preserve there. I want shoes with worn soles from the miles and miles they carried me. from the distance I had to walk to find the people who add joy to my life. Cracks from running in the rain while the rest of the world stayed inside. I want my imperfections to show that I lived while I was here. So from now on, Let's stop conflating perfect and beautiful. Perfect is no skin in the game. Perfect is standing forever in the doorway looking out.
Perfect is dreaming and wishing and hoping but never leaving. Because leaving is where our vision brushes up against a reality we may see as too big. No, we want not perfect, but beautiful. We want scars and flaws and lessons and loss. Because from those things, as difficult as they may be, we're born again. Imperfection is life and life is beautiful. So here's to more scuffed shoes and scraped knees. to walking an imperfect yet beautiful road ahead.
The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start. John Bingham. We all share a commonality, the runner on the starting blocks, the one at work, the one studying, the one trying to create the best life possible for their family. See, we are all at a beginning, looking up at an idea. Nothing given, nothing to adjust or react to, no, just an idea. An idea is when we are at the bottom looking up, They're deceptive in nature, their size, their weight, their breadth. They like to present themselves as much more than they actually are. And so, to turn ideas into things, one needs see themselves, not as some descendant of Mount Olympus tasked with lifting that 2,000-ton boulder before them, but
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why does waiting for “perfect” keep us stuck?
0:00–3:40
2
How do obstacles become the way forward?
3:40–9:12
3
What does the “kintsugi” metaphor teach about scars and value?
9:12–13:44
4
Why should we trade perfection for beautiful imperfection?
13:44–20:15
5
How does consistent action break the perfection trap?
20:15–27:38
6
What role does mindset play in shaping our reality?
27:38–35:49
7
How can focusing on positives reshape our life’s trajectory?
35:49–41:35
8
What practical steps can we take right now to stop waiting and start living?
41:35–44:25
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