Perfection is another Wall away from Imagination and creativity.

Nothing is ever completely figured out at the beginning. Everything changes. It’s a process. Instead of pursuing perfection go after excellence instead. Like Aristotle said think: Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions; we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. So try to get better at what you love creating. By doing, again and again and again, the gifts of talent, originality and genius come naturally, organically in the next act of the Imagination.

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