- Once, during a dialogue with my friend Dima, he asked me about perfection and how to achieve it.
- My response to that idea was approximately this:
- Perfection can be achieved only the first time; everything else is repetition.
- Until today, I hadn’t realized how profound that thought was.
- My response to that idea was approximately this:
- Lorenz and Chomsky, in their exchange1, mentioned a sentence that’s initially hard to understand, but over time, a clearer shape emerges:
- «Only the empty sentence always has validity.»
- This can be applied to the idea of repetition and the first attempt. Only the first attempt, which lacks judgment and feedback, is perfect and valid.
- Every subsequent attempt is a clone of the very first.
- Like a newborn child, the first try is perfect. But as it gets infused with ideas and corrections, while it has chances of becoming better, it cannot remain perfect. It loses its innocence through the process of change and maturity.
What is perfection? To take a peek into the concept I suggest watching this video:
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1. 1. Norbert B. Remarks on Lorenz and Piaget. How Can «Working Hypotheses» Be «Necessary»?