What does it take to reach “perfection”? Of course there is no such thing as “perfect”, perfection is unreachable, but how can we target it, and try to get as close as possible to it? The IA has taught me to seek for perfection, and I have; in fact I’m craving for it, not because Mr. Bon told me to, but because I want to succeed, I want to have the best version of myself possible. But again, there is a difference between craving for perfection and working for it. So my question is, what’s the formula to achieve perfect? After thinking and reflecting for a few minutes, I came up with a few concepts, which I believe that are what lead to perfection.
worthless. Give feedback; we might as well learn to criticize, seek for perfection in other’s work. If you don’t give honest and to the point feedback to help others grow, then who will help you grow? Trust flows both ways. Don’t limit yourself. Don’t work to for a top mark, give more, exceed expectations. If you set yourself a bar, then you are putting yourself a barrier, limiting yourself. You will always be able to do better, that’s why we should not be setting ourselves expectations or conforming ourselves with good, we shall work as hard as we can. I don’t think there is a more rewarding feeling than to be able to say “I gave it all, and I succeeded”. Push yourself as hard as you can, because you can go as far as you let yourself. I can conclude by saying that though perfection doesn’t exist, still it is a way to measure how far can we go. It’s a way to achieve the best version of ourselves as possible.
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We have basically 32 hours of free time. That is more enough time to finish 6 tasks. So what was stopping me? DISTRACTIONS. I am the kind of person who simply cannot work 15 minutes without getting distracted. Time isn’t the issue, I’ve got time, the thing is working efficiently and getting the work done. So how can I work efficiently to try to avoid stress? I started listing things up, things like: taking a five minute break every half an hour, closing facebook, twitter, tumbler, etc and turning my phone off, work in a quiet place with no distractions. Finally it’s Sunday at 9:00 pm and I have managed to successfully finish all of the tasks I proposed to do. Actually I didn’t only finish them, but I also was able to revise them, and send them to a peer for a second opinion. I am really surprised that I was able to finish everything on time; it’s amazing what you can do once you propose to do it. I feel like the quality of my work is better too, I guess it’s because my mind works better when I’m only thinking at one thing at the time, instead or being distracted every five minutes. So I guess that’s it. We use time as an excuse to cover for our laziness and distractions. Yes we can achieve almost anything we want, we just have to propose to do it. Our whole lives we have been taught that grades are what measure our capacity and efforts. In fact, we have become so obsessed with grades, that we have based our whole academic lives on them; we give them the power to control us.
A few days ago I got my biology test back. I got a 6 out of 8, which is not a bad grade at all, but I was definitely expecting something more that would payback all the effort I put into studying. When revising the test, I noticed that actually knew all of the correct answers, meaning I had totally learned the right concepts, but it where those small dumb mistakes that had driven me away from a top mark. So I thought, if I actually learned everything I should, then why am I disappointed about an insignificant number? That’s the thing; we give so much value to a number, that we are obstructed from what really matters, learning. Think about it, a grade is just a number, its empty, it has absolutely no value, but still we use it as our motivation. Going back to the biology test, why did my payback have to be the grade, when it could have been the simple fact that I had learned something new. Other times, the fear of the number wards us from actually learning. You know how it’s easier to memorize than to learn, so students (including myself) prefer to memorize a whole textbook to make sure that they do well on a test, than actually make sure they understand each concept. Doesn’t this sound ridiculous? We are killing our knowledge because we fear a number. Again, all of this comes from the culture we where raised in, a culture where a number is capable of defining a person. |
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