Perfection is an Illusion
Perfection is an illusion. And yet countless people let it hold them back from their goals and dreams. It’s impossible to say why this drive for something that doesn’t exist took over our way of thinking. But from what I’ve learned in child development classes in college, it happens to almost all of us at right about the same age.
Case in point…ALL children draw once they’re able to hold a pen, pencil, crayon, etc. In fact, they draw or paint with gleeful abandon. It doesn’t matter that no one else can tell what the subject matter is, they’ll happily explain it to you. They all go through the same developmental benchmarks with their drawings too. When drawings become recognizable to adults, people are represented by a big circle head with stick arms and legs jutting out from it. It graduates to giant heads on a rectangular body with stick arms and legs, and so on.
However, by this time, kids are in school. It doesn’t take long before they become aware of peer pressure. The fear of ridicule starts to take effect. Most kids stop drawing. It’s the rare individual that doesn’t care what anyone says and continues drawing.
