Waffle Cone Express

Copyright (c) 2009 Valery Satterwhite

"Art knows no limit, and artists will never achieve perfection." - Bente Borsum

Bente Borsum is a talented actress who has performed with the Norwegian National Theater and was director of Norwegian National School of Drama. As a mentor and teacher, she worked with younger artists who need professional expertise and encouragement. I found this quote, one of many, to be particularly deep because many talented people to retain their jobs, their full creative expression in search of perfection.

There is a distinction between a hard worker and perfectionist. The first is excellence while accepting later, nothing less than perfection is impossible to themselves and their work. performers are motivated by their goal. They enjoy the challenge and are powered by the search.

Perfectionists, on the other hand, fight with the critical failure in the unattainable goal of perfection. They stand on their imperfections and wear the badges of their shortcomings and failures. The perfectionist is often frozen in the fear of presenting anything less than perfect in the world, including herself or her.

It is a crime against humanity. When someone holds back, never ends a creation, because it never reaches perfection, the world is deprived of the creative expression. We see this not only in the art world, but in the broader perspective of all the creations of humanity as well.

The pressure on children to perform is very common because parents look for much of their status as the performance of their children. The pressure comes in the form of criticism. Children often believe that to be loved, they must be perfect, an impossible goal. To be accepted in their industry, their work must be perfect. The pain of rejection is the pain of being a lover, a fate to be avoided at all costs.

Perfectionists seek perfection unattainable by them. In their inability to achieve perfection, they refuse the love of oneself. And hold their creative expression and take with them into the grave.

The perfectionist standpoint of life is shaped by the irrational belief and expectation that righteousness is perfect. Nothing less than perfection is flat wrong. To be good, it must be perfect. All is not perfect is bad, the perfectionist is bad.

The inhibiting factor that keeps the perfectionist to make a commitment to change habitual, unproductive behavior is the constant fear of not making the shift from "good" enough. In the quest to create something, the drum beats perfectionist not good enough, ill-Ness, and indignity. As such, nothing is created, nothing is more expressed than others beat the drum of the imperfection.

The perfectionist is very well served by noting that much of what the company calls the Great art is imperfect imperfect in some way. The Statue of David's hand is too large, for example. Many artists deliberately insert a flaw in their work as a reminder that it is always possible to improve their creative potential. Perfection does not allow for creativity - the death knell for the creative spirit.

Many of our daily pleasures were invented by error or accident. The ice cream cone has been invented when an ice cream vendor ran out of bowls. A seller of a boy, a waffle maker, gave him a waffle to hold the roll drops of ice cream. Post-it Notes were invented as an employee of 3M adhesive that was too low. The adhesive was then redirected ineffective when he discovered that the weak glue worked wonderfully when you want a temporary stick-measure solution that could be easily removed without damage.

An awakening to the perfectionist would inspire the energy modeling of motivation hard worker. A new para.