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A friend works for a superior who demands "perfection". Everything is tweaked till the very last minute to attain what her boss thinks is as close to perfect as can be attained.
And it is driving the entire team up the wall.
IMHO, this is unnecessary.
Yes, put in your very best effort at accomplishing something and do what you must to improve it but no need to slave-drive the team to eke out that 0.5% improvement til the very last minute.
If all of us had waited for "perfection", very little would get done. Very few decisions would be made.
I had the similar conversation with a family member on ChatGPT recently. I told her that ChatGPT scoring well in medical school, law school, GRE, MBA etc examinations raises questions.
i.e. What are we testing for and what do the scores mean?
If 50% is the passing mark, does it mean that the said doctor only knows 50% of the material? Is that acceptable?
We call what doctors and lawyers do as a Practice. And it is precisely that. Cos there is constant learning and improving. Building of experience, capabilities and competencies over time.
If we had demanded all aspiring doctors, lawyers et al to attain 100% in their qualifying exams prior to issuing them their licenses.....I think we will have very very few of them around today.
So, I tell my friends, just put in best effort and not continually refine for perfection. No need to beat it til we are "perfect". Make it good enough to be worthy of calling it our work. Good enough to reflect our professionalism, values and skills.
I think that is "perfect" enough.