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The Pursuit of Perfection and Its Fallacy
0:00 Hello there. In the book Principles by Ray Dalio. It says like this. We can see that perfection doesn’t exist. It is a goal that fuels a never-ending process of adaptation.
0:14 If nature or anything. Were perfect It would be evolving Organisms, organizations and individuals People are always highly perfect But capable of improving So rather than getting stuck hiding our mistakes and pretending we’re perfect It makes sense to find our imperfections And deal with them you will
0:34 either learn valuable lessons from your mistakes and and press on better equipped and to succeed or You won’t and you will fail as the same goals evolve or die.
The Concept of Perfection
0:47 So You There is this word which is perfect and that word is not applicable to humans Why is not applicable to humans and why perfection of perfectionism is not a good thing?
1:04 Because perfect is unattainable is not applicable to humans humans are not perfect and ain’t nothing that human beings do is perfect so perfectionism is a bad thing because it’s an endless pursuit for something that you will be never achieve it’s a level that you will never achieve so you’re going to
1:24 be in this endless loop of seeking something without moving toward towards your goal but there’s another way of looking to this word and reading this word which is instead of perfect which is an adjective so if you look to perfect to the word perfect as an adjective its going to lead to this endless
Perfection as a Verb
1:46 loop without that I just described to you but if you look to this word as a verb perfect instead of perfect if you look at perfect as perfect that’s completely applicable to humans why because that matches the neurochemistry of your brain that matches the nature of the universe We’ll you in next one.
2:08 We’ll see you We’ll see you We’ll see you We’ll see you Thanks for And that matches the improvement in the betterment of your life because your brain has a molecule called serotonin its a neurotransmitter and basically when the serotonin is released in your brain you have Thanks for watching!
2:25 A suppression of negative emotions and an increment of positive emotions why is that because how is that release actually when you see a target and which is a goal and you perceive yourself yourself.
2:41 Moving towards that goal there’s a release in serotonin and that makes you feel good why is that because it means that you’re moving yourself towards the ink the ink increment of the odds of your survival so if you’re increasing the odds of your survival what’s happening is that by making that move you
The Role of Serotonin in Goal Pursuit
3:06 should not be anxious you should not be depressed you should not be panicked you should not be afraid instead you should you should be brave you should be proud you should be happy you should be courageous you should be content because you’re moving towards the source of survival source of food source
3:25 of water source of survival so that makes you feel good but pay attention to what I’m not saying with in what I’m not saying which is I’m not saying that achieving the goal releases serotonin in your brain what I’m saying is that perceiving yourself moving towards your goal your tag target its what releases
3:47 the serotonin in your brain it doesn’t matter if you achieve that that’s a completely different story but moving towards the the source of your success that is definitely something that’s going to make you feel good good small steps incremental steps you dont have to speed up you just have to be consistent
Consistency and Habit Formation
4:08 you just have to let good habits you need to give good habits a chance to mold your brain your life to set your identity and thats what perfect instead of perfect can do for you.
