“In the case of everything perfect we are accustomed to abstain from asking how it became.” -Friedrich Nietzsche “We prefer our excellence fully formed,” “ Mythologizing natural talent lets us all off the hook.” -Angela Duckworth. “It’s practice, it’s training and it’s experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best I can be.” -David Blaine. Perfection was taken away from humankind when Eve ate from the tree of wisdom. Now we have shame, second thoughts, embarrassment, and conflict. Why strive for an ideal that doesn’t exist when the only thing we are asked to do is to do the absolute best we can in what we are called to do.