BRX Pro Tip: Perfection is an Excuse for Not Taking Action
Stone Payton: And we are back with BRX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, I think our experience has been and we’ve shared this with many people in our family, in our business family, in our circle, perfection really can’t be and, often, is an excuse for not taking action.
Lee Kantor: Yeah. There’s only a few businesses that require perfection. If you’re a rocket scientist or a surgeon, I can understand the goal of perfection. But for most people, perfection is just an excuse for not taking action. Good enough is usually good enough to take some sort of action. And you got to kind of put this fear aside or this excuse aside and really take action and learn. I think at first you should take massive action. It’s not even like let’s kind of just throw our hat over the fence. I think you got to jump over the fence.
Lee Kantor: But because most of what we do does not require perfection, it’s just not necessary to be perfect in pretty much anything. So, I think you’re much better served by just trying something, see where improvement can be made, improve it, try again, improve it again, and just keep rinsing and repeating.
Lee Kantor: Perfection only exists in your mind. It doesn’t exist in the real world. Once your idea is real and it’s in the wild, all of a sudden lots of things are going to be impacting it. There’s going to be a lot of chaos kind of pounding on that idea. And then, you’re going to learn. And then, you’re going to see issues, you’re going to see problems, you’re going to see opportunities that you could not have anticipated when you were just dreaming about this thing.
Lee Kantor: So, fix all the stuff. Leverage all the stuff that has bubbled up. And just focus on constant improvement. To me, constant improvement is a hundred, a thousand, a million times better than perfection. If you have the mindset of always trying to make it better, you don’t have to worry about perfection. It’s going to be good enough.
