Today is January 24 and the Navigate the Chaos question to consider is "How often are you pursuing perfection?" Perfectionism lowers the ability to take calculated risks, reduces creativity, and stifles innovation. Expecting perfection from yourself actually limits your ability to grow both personally and professionally. In Tal Ben-Shahar's book The Pursuit of Perfect he refers to negative perfectionism simply as perfectionism and to positive perfectionism as optimalism. For Ben-Shahar the optimist embraces the constraints of reality while a perfectionist rejects those constraints. Salvador Dali observed “Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it.”