There’s an episode of Two and a Half Men where Charlie (Played by Charlie Sheen) tries to set his brother Alan with a blind date.
You see, Alan has been struggling with women ever since his divorce and has given up on dating all together.
When Charlie tells Alan that he can arrange a blind date for him, Alan answers with this:
“She'd have to be really pretty, like a ten. And young, like a twenty.”
And then he continues to list his series of demands: That she has to be super smart, and incredibly funny… She must be great with kids, and must read a lot of books...etc.
Charlie listens patiently and replies:
“You're mighty picky for a guy with an adult newsstand in his sock drawer.”
As funny as that might sound, this is a life lesson of which we need to be reminded from time to time.
Suppose you wanted to lose weight or get in shape, you start working out day by day. At the beginning it’s hard but if you put in the work and keep showing up, then those good habits compile and little by little you start to see the results.
But if you’re 300 pounds and you’re looking for an easy exercise where after 30 minutes you end up with Thor’s biceps, Brad Pitt’s abs and pecs like The Rock...
Then nothing will change as you’ll keep waiting forever for the perfect system that simply does not exist.
And strangely enough, this is something that we can observe in some crypto communities, whether on Slacks, Discords, Telegram channels… Anytime there’s a new project being launched, you’re bound to find a discourse where anything outside of immaculate perfection isn’t good enough.
If a project isn’t a 100% decentralized, or having a CEO that isn’t a social animal and eloquent speaker… Or the minimal noticeable defect, then the project isn’t good enough.
Take the blockchain aspect aside, and it would be totally normal for any new project to start small, deal with a lot of tribulation, learn from the mistakes and correct them as you go along… That would be totally understandable.
While in real life we all understand that 1 is better than 0, and try to compile and compound positive results. In crypto, you always the hovering notion that things are expected to go directly from 0 to supernova.
I don’t know if you've noticed that?
Which begs the question, what if perfection happens to stand in the way of progress?
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Perfection is progress one can never be 100 % perfect but one can definitely try to reach that Just like you always do something unique : )
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