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Let’s Pursue Perfection
On the meaning of pursuing perfection, there are equally convincing instances of both its merits and problems. Some encourage the pursuit of perfection for it could be a strategy motivating innovation and success, as is illustrated by the example of Paul O’Neill, CEO OF the world’s safest industrial company Alcoa. While some disregard perfectionism as hurting self-esteem and performance of, e.g., pupils or learners of all levels. They believe that unhelpful perfectionism goes against high standards and that students need to aim at an A grade but never the highest A possible.
Personally I see more benefit of pursuing perfection than the harm of it.
First of all, the pursuit of perfection is human nature. Ever since ancient times, such an enthusiasm drove mankind to seek more amount and higher quality of food, dressing, housing and entertainment. It drove the advancement of science and technology at an accelerating speed, witnessing, for instance, changes of communication means from the cart to steam engine, to cars and trains, to airplanes and space rockets. And today human beings have the common wish to pay sufficient attention to the protection of the environment, striving relentlessly for the quality of life instead of merely creating infinite wealth. Human civilization owes a lot to the desire to pursue perfection.
Secondly, the pursuit of perfection does work satisfactorily as a strategy to surpass difficulties on the road to success. Xue Qikun, vice-president of Tsinghua University and winner of first prize in the State Natural Science Award, once said “no one's journey to success is smooth sailing. My experience actually gave me the mental fortitude to pursue perfection in the face of challenges and a willingness to enjoy the rigorous process.” Likewise, a perfectionist’s mentality eventually helps one to overcome his shortcomings and achieve “missions impossible”.
Admittedly, perfectionism sometimes might go to extremes and undermin e people’s performance. But properly leveraged, the pursuit of perfection could work wonders.
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