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Law Practice

Nov. 30, 2011

Habitual perfection hurts: When 'good enough’ is better than 'perfect’

Perfection is a concept that humans simply made up

Timothy A. Tosta

Arent Fox LLP

Email: tim.tosta@arentfox.com

Humans weren't designed for perfection. We are analog, not digital. Perfection is a concept that humans simply made up. Perfection consists of nothing more than the thoughts that create and sustain it. For millennia, even the Gods weren't perfect! Monotheism cleared up that confusion. If there was to be only one, that one demanded perfection.

Perfection comes up often in my coaching of lawyers. The conceptual framework of law lends itself to perfection, particularly as it relates t...

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