Lecture 4
Demand For Perfection
A motivated student once said, “I know I am not perfect but I am so close to it that it scares me.” That student moved ahead to display super academic excellence.
We have heard the saying that no one is perfect, but at least we can make an effort to reach perfection. This is largely because of the belief that ‘we are not perfect but parts of us are beautiful’ and if we used these beautiful parts we too can move towards perfection. At many modern work places we get the demand for quality control, quality assurance and perfection therefore the sooner we learn to follow that route the better it is for all of us.
Some religious sects say that there is an even better life for all of us lying somewhere ahead or in the future than the one we are living today. They also believe that we can achieve a lot more in our life if we understood ourselves as well as the people with whom we interact everyday. This understanding will give us an urge to improve our environment and ourselves.
I think that there is a cure for human weakness when we stop brooding over our weakness and think about our strength. It is with that strength that lies within us that we can aim to demand perfection in ourselves. Remember to look at this world as the greatest gymnasium where people come to make themselves strong and you are no exception.
I know of an Indian proverb that says that it is the coward and the fool who says, “This is fate” – but it is the strong person who stands up and says, “I will make my fate.” I have found out that the road to the “Good Living” is the roughest and the steepest in this complex and difficult world. So many of us succeed and so many of us fall but if we are able to establish strong character we will never stumble.
There is no doubt at all in my mind that we can be more successful and gradually move towards perfection if we tried harder and made greater efforts in everything we did. This strong feeling to progress in life is vital if we want to achieve more success and reach peak performance.
We know the maxim ‘practice makes us perfect’ but it is no longer true for many of us because our practice may be wrong and inappropriate so we have to coin a new phrase for us. Perfect practice makes us perfect. Learning to put perfect ideas into practice is moving ahead with motivation.
It goes without saying then that we must put a command in our sub conscious mind that all our skills, talen