I attended an all-women's university. On my first day, the President of the college asked all the freshman who among us was a perfectionist. Many hands, including mine, went up. She went on to tell us, dryly, that this would be beaten out of us or we would be driven away. Her opinion was that it was more important to learn to prioritize than to be a perfectionist. It was a difficult lesson, but one well-learned.
I like the idea of wabi-sabi. It's actually something I really like in my paintings - I think of it as the beauty of decay and organic imperfection, but it's better defined and described there. I might even investigate the book.
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Date: 2009-01-28 04:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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