"It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
-Somerset Maugham
One of the reasons why perfectionists are so is because they can’t settle for second best. They focus and accomplish smaller goals to cumulatively achieve more every time. And success for them is a never ending process. In fact, for them success is a by product of incessant progress. Even though these statements seem to be mundane, they indeed qualify as an example for “Winners don’t do different things, they do things differently!” We seldom realize that mediocrity in our life is only because we compromise on the unavailability of the best. And winners go on to become the mile stones in that domain just because they hold on further where we give up.
I wish to conclude with one of my favorite quotes by my guide, “Knowing and not doing is not knowing!” :-)
-Somerset Maugham
One of the reasons why perfectionists are so is because they can’t settle for second best. They focus and accomplish smaller goals to cumulatively achieve more every time. And success for them is a never ending process. In fact, for them success is a by product of incessant progress. Even though these statements seem to be mundane, they indeed qualify as an example for “Winners don’t do different things, they do things differently!” We seldom realize that mediocrity in our life is only because we compromise on the unavailability of the best. And winners go on to become the mile stones in that domain just because they hold on further where we give up.
I wish to conclude with one of my favorite quotes by my guide, “Knowing and not doing is not knowing!” :-)
18 comments:
nice one .. very true !
thanks boobie!!! :-)
We need to understand whom are we talking about as winners? I mean who is a winner? a software scientist (actually an engineer, they boast about) at google? or Mahatma Gandhi? who is a winner? Or is the software scientist a winner and Mahatma Gandhi ... or for that matter albert einstien more of a winner? Or are Mahatma Gandhi and Einstien Leaders? so well perfectionism is fine ... but perfectionism is so standard driven .. its ideal driven ... never an Ideal in it self... so leaders are themselves ideals ... and they are driven by ideas .. their original ideas ... winners are driven by ideals... and never become ideal themselves... they approach it ... closely .. but they don't become it ever
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Knowing and not doing is not knowing ....
if we are talking about a skill, yes that's true.... a skill like / an ability.. if your system knows how to do it, it does it... cycling a skill, yes if your system knows balancing and cycling, you will cycle, given one ... But this knowing is different from what we know as Knowing ...
but there is another kind of knowing that has nothing to do with doing....
-infinite
winning is however all about doing :)
did i remotely indicate that sotware people are winners?? :-O i dont know if it is understood that way.. but if its indeed taken that way, i totally disagree that engineers are winners!!! :-D
the plot here that i intended was to generalise the qualities of perfectionists, leaders, winners and such other similar personaility traits.. after all to some extent these words happen to be one of the connotations of each other!!! :-)
doing as well as believing in yourself!!! :-)
btw.. if you are a gandhi admirer.. we happen to match on this count too!!! :)
Even I didn't say that you said engineers are winners ... They may be ... but not because they are engineers ... some engineers may be winners because they are winners and happen to be engineers. The point I am trying to make is that winners, perfectionists and leaders are all different and all of them have different traits... Perfectionists are standard / perfection / conforming to an ideal driven.... While leaders have no ideals to conform to... they have a vision and a direction ... no ideals, nio final destinations... they march ahead and the world follows... be s Gandhi or Einstien ... they are idea-pushed and not ideal driven... do you see a difference?
i beg to differ with you on this count dear infinite...
1. i never said perfectionist, leaders, winners are synonyms.. i said they happen to be connotations of each other..
2. all of them are driven by standard, ideal, vision, mission.. its just a matter of priorities..
3. perfectionists have ideals and leaders have vision too.. well, if the ideals or visions are rational is another topic of discussion (better debate! :-D)
Snigdha,
I agree with you on what you said in your post. I was talking about something completely different may be. That's different subject and a different inquiry.
What are perfectionists like? Can there actually be a perfection? so do perfectionists have a direction? or a destination...
I was thinking aloud.
:)
By the way perfectionism may have nothing to do with success... that may be a result of the process and not the process itself
never settle for less is fine ... but is that perfectionism?
Dear Infinite,
Yes surely I shall dedicate another post for you trying to respond to your enquiry..
As for the never settling for second best, its one of the traits of perfection, not a whole!!! :-D
I agree, just one attribute.... not perfectionism it self... I wonder why we all talk only about attributes... :) that's because words can only do that ... describe attributes.... and that's what we understand ... because we need words to understand ... we are so attribute limited :(
Yeah, and I guess perseverance is the key!
:)
@ daggny: you said it dudette!! :-)
i so agree with this! how can someone want a gold medal n not a silver one?
what do you mean by that statement radhika?? didnt quite get you at it!!
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