First, this has me thinking about Kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with lacquer & gold highlighting & honoring the cracks rather than hiding them. The repaired vessel is considered more valuable than before it was broken. A deeply helpful and healing metaphor for our own lives.
'Insistence on perfection precludes growth' shows up for me like this: focusing so much on the perfection of writing/revisions/edits that the book took 6 years from the 1st draft to when it was finally published. Grad school 20 hours spent revising a 1000 word paper (of which there were 14 in the 10 month program + the larger project). Or in a more ordinary example, an hour spent continually revising an email before sending. What was the growth denied? Time to give more to the world around me. Growth in seeing the good enough already present. Liberation!
On Aug 15, 2023 Kristin Pedemonti wrote :