Perfection isn't a destination but a constant process that drives all personal growth. The speaker, drawing on Dan Pink's research, argues that our core motivation is the urge to improve, and treating every moment as a chance to get better fuels that drive.
I get caught talking about perfection a lot. The idea is— in fact, people sometimes ask me, "So why is that the first major section in the book Think Like a Black Belt?" Well, it's the first part of the process. It's the end of the process and it's the middle of the process too. It's the whole wraparound. Perfection, again, is not a destination. It's a never-ending process. And once you embrace that, then you're looking for moments of perfection or opportunities to improve yourself all along the way. So it really isn't that perfection is the end or the beginning. That's just what we do. It's our nature to want to improve ourselves. There's been great studies done about human motivation and Dan Pink just released some data that showed this. That one of the great human motivators is our desire to improve ourselves. So that process of perfection, that process of personal development, is one of our greatest motivations in life. We want to improve. It's our nature to improve ourselves. So not only is it the middle step and the end step, but it's the first step as well. Why not take it?
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