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andrewducker) wrote2021-11-24 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2021-11-24 12:00 pm
Entry tags:
- bigotry,
- conspiracy,
- creativity,
- date,
- genetics,
- hate,
- housing,
- language,
- law,
- lgbt,
- links,
- numbers,
- ohforfuckssake,
- perfectionism,
- politics,
- polls,
- psychology,
- rental,
- school,
- scotland,
- time,
- uk,
- usa,
- visualisation,
- women
Interesting Links for 24-11-2021
- Covid stamp duty holiday cost £6.4bn and helped rich house buyers in south
- (tags:housing uk OhForFucksSake )
- In simple English, what does it mean for a number to be transcendental?
- (tags:numbers )
- Americans are struggling to deal with a rising tide of hatred and extremism
- (tags:USA hate bigotry school LGBT )
- What gets to be a valid word? A linguist's view
- (tags:language )
- The woman with XY chromosomes
- (tags:women genetics )
- New licencing laws for short term lets in Scotland
- (tags:rental Scotland housing )
- The Moral of the Roller-Skating Christmas Pudding - the Significance of the Absenteeism of the Lord Chancellor
- (tags:politics law uk )
- The Conspiracy Chart
- (tags:conspiracy visualisation )
- When Americans think each season starts
- (tags:time date usa polls )
- Striving For Perfection, Rather Than Excellence, Can Kill Creativity
- (tags:psychology creativity perfectionism )
Re: Excellent and perfect
I was thinking about it in the context of the traditional arts, where practice makes perfect, but definitions of 'perfect' can vary. A friend of mine, trained in the Chinese pottery tradition (which emphasises the achievement of errorless mastery), once apprenticed himself to a Japanese master in the hopes of learning and understanding the Japanese approach of perfection in imperfection, using the accidental and the aleatory. After a year or so, both he and his master accepted that his way was the way of seeking perfection in perfection, and that was just the way it was. But the goal in both cases was beauty, not "creativity" in the abstract, so I think it's a completely different context from what the study was looking at.
Basically, being willing to break a hundred unsatisfactory pots for every one that reaches your standards is a feature, not a bug.