Never Try to Be an A+
Most everyone
wants to become or make good. That is OK. And, that is that. Try to be perfect
or to become the single best is very risky as well as painful.
Painful---you
know that already.
Risky---you may
fail even to be good.
Why's that? Because we all are human beings --- we cannot do everything well: we cannot be always right. Simply put, you'd
better learn to be satisfied with a B+ or Ao, not necessarily with an
A+. That is
life!
We almost always
take the second best in our society, too. And nothing around us is perfect.
Refer to the following popular
sayings :
1) Every coin has
two tails.
Meaning every
one, except for you soul mate, has an ugly (weak, dishonest, shameful, or dark) side as
well as a pretty one.
2) There is no
alternative aka TINA.
That's
Thatcherite mantra meaning the free-market system is the better choice, not the
best.
3) Democracy is
the worst form of government except for
all those others that have been tried.
By Winston
Churchill
4) The best is
the enemy of the good.
By
Voltaire
5) 孫子曰,
無所不備,
卽無所不寡
To be
prepared everywhere is to be weak everywhere."
By Sun-tzu
6) 子夏曰, 大德不踰閑
小德出入可也
Minor errors are
acceptable as long as the big picture is in good shape.
By a Confucian
disciple
7) 구더기 무서워 장못
담그랴?
Fearful of worms,
you cannot make soy sauce.
A Korean
saw
After
all,
- No one, including your mom, is perfect.
- No policy is flawless.-> The law of unintended consequences
- No theory holds always true.
- No market is totally efficient.
- Nothing is completely anything. (Eugene Fama, 2010)
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