The writer Rebecca Solnit puts it well: “So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it’s also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun.”
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Winston Churchill summed it up well, “Perfection(ism) is the enemy of progress.”
The fear of making mistakes keeps many of us paralyzed and unable to begin. We learn by doing and making mistakes.
"A fearful writer can never be an effective writer"
The reason behind that is because when people are driven by fear they can say anything without thinking about it rationally; they use soft language and lack conviction in their words.
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