Posted by It is said that to get to the perfect result, you must persevere. As a child, I always wondered what the word stood for. Perseverance. In school, we even had a special award category for this. I may have won it once, still not knowing its meaning.
With the world portrayed as absolutely perfect in the mass media we consume, the struggle behind perfectionism remains hidden, which is why you rarely see people putting their bad art or writing on display.
Somewhere in that self-policing mode of only putting out the best before the world, we are attempting to jump over the pebbles of bad work. But unless you have created bad art, you don’t really discover your style or your voice. So when you stop yourself from undergoing that rigour out of being conscious of the world’s eye, you stop creating altogether.
Don’t let the mental filter of looking perfect stop you from creating. Instead, focus on finishing. Then you can always improve. But pick up the pen or type out the guiding phase on that blog. Let your mind take its flow. There is beauty in not knowing how it ends.
In the age of AI, you will be surprised to see that you will actually be celebrated for being original, flawed and human. Even if you are not, you will be fine. At least, you would have flexed your human intellect a little. And that is a muscle that always keeps giving.
