Striving for perfection
There is only one truth to perfection. It cannot be reached. Just can’t.
The iPad has no camera. Facebook has privacy problems they can’t seem to overcome. Chick-fil-A isn’t open on Sundays. Your mother-in-law has to make that comment. Not my mother-in-law, mind you, she’s the freaking best, but your mother-in-law says some inappropriate stuff sometimes.
Nobody and no company is perfect. This is not news.
So with that rationale starting point, there are two ways to go forward. You can throw your arms up, concede perfection and go about striving for “pretty good”, or you can strive for perfection anyway, knowing that you’ll never attain it but that you’ll be pretty dang close if you keep shooting for it.
I was struck by this focus on perfection while at Disney World with the family a few weeks back. Disney tries like no other company to be perfect. In a Google search for “Disney strive for perfection”, I found a massive amount of content about this topic. Even a quote from the company, “We strive for perfection, but settle for excellence“. I just found that, which means their vision came through loud and clear to me while experiencing Disney World in person.
Here’s an example. Construction is happening everywhere. Just walk down the streets of any major city and you’ll see construction sites, you’ll walk under scaffolding, see dudes in hard hats whistling at ladies walking by (ok, that might be a stereotype, not sure I’ve ever seen that actually), etc. And its always unattractive and a less-than-perfect experience.
Take a look at how Disney does construction. You almost can’t even tell. They literally drape something over the building that looks just like the building! It’s amazing and it definitely inspired me to keep pushing toward perfection in the midst of knowing its unattainable.
Disney is in a league of it’s own. I had a friend who worked there in college and his hair is naturally 2 colors (brownish and reddish mixed together) and they made him dye his hair to be one color. This was about 15 years ago so who knows if they still do that, but I’ve always thought it was odd. Must have been part of their perfection/excellence plan.
I guess if I can’t get any great cycling chats like the old “wooden racket days”, then I’ll settle for a computer blog site!!! This would be like adding a decent slice backhand until your 1 or 2 handed backhand comes around!! The strength factor for the backhand isn’t something that comes overnight, so drop a “drapecloth over it pictured SLICE!”
Whoa, it had been so long since I’ve been there that I didn’t even notice they did that…which I guess is the point! Pretty cool.
Jeff, only you would turn a pleasure trip with your fam into a biz blog opp! However, I believe you’re right on point with this one.
I support and applaud Disney’s theory, and I will continue to “strive for perfection and settle for excellence.” Now, if only we might gather others to this practice . . .
Wow, that’s crazy, they really made him dye his hair one color!? That sounds a little overboard but then again, I guess they have their reasons. They really run an impeccable park. Just how they keep everything incredibly clean yet you never see anyone walking around cleaning up is outstanding.
Busted :)