That’s ‘good enough’, is something I have been guilty of saying on more than one occasion, well truthfully, on hundreds, if not more occasions.
It’s strange, that with no restrictions, except for the ones that we put on ourselves, that we would accept just ‘good enough’.
If we are going to bother summing up enough determination to overcome inertia and start something, why would we settle for just plain old ‘good enough’?
It could be that we try to do too much in any given time period, the pressure of wanting to live up to this almost macho bullshit of ‘working hard’ and ‘I’m so busy’. Therefore, because we have set unrealistic goals of what we can achieve, we often rush things or accept ‘good enough’.
Maybe we are fearful of sharing our truly best creations, in case it is too different, and we fear others might not like it, so our powerful limbic ‘chimp’ takes over, rattles the cage and we accept ‘good enough’.
Possibly, it is all part of the play it ‘safe’ culture that the homogenised industrialised world has brainwashed us with, to ensure we just comply and do our jobs, without causing any noise or upsetting the status quo. So as a tick box exercise we have been programmed to produce just ‘good enough’.
I’m for trying doing less, but giving it my best shot to produce something that is remarkable. It’s hard, because you have to unlearn.
However, I know that by overcoming fears, being courageous and vulnerable, only then, will we find out what we are truly capable of. What a waste of a lifetime never to try and find out.
Philip Dodson 