Tamara Gray – Perfect is the Enemy of Good Anse

Today, I was talking with someone about imposter syndrome and how

often times, especially women. And you know, in the end, my

experiences are mostly with women, but especially women, have

imposter syndrome. And what imposter syndrome is is that even

though you are qualified, and if you check the facts, you'll find

that you have the skills you need to do the thing that is in front

of you to do, even if you do it and do it well, you feel like

you're an imposter, that you someone's going to find out that

you're not perfect

and here, and that is it. That's a dangerous and difficult way to

feel, because, first of all, nobody is perfect. And there's a

expression we like to say over here, rabata,

which is perfect is the enemy of good.

Perfect is the enemy of good. What does that mean? Means, as long as

you're striving for something to be perfect, you're going to end

you may end up with some really serious issues that make it not

good. For example, it could be late. Maybe you're working on a

project and you refuse to hand it in or get it done because we want

you want it to be perfect. Oh, now it's late. When something is late,

it loses of its good. Maybe you want it to be perfect and so you

won't talk about with anybody else, and now you've missed out on

an opportunity for other people's creativity. You missed out on good

when we're seeking perfection, we we miss out on good sometimes

because we are so stuck in our own vision of perfection, we forgot

that there was a use for the project and it just needed to get

done.