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[Descan]

Forget impossible, be possible?

Catchy, vapid, doesn't really mean anything, and actually gets rather horrifying when you think about it? (Don't try and aim for what is impossible! Settle for less!)

Sounds like a school motto.

[MaximumZero]

Me: Don't put your bank password into a demo computer, please. Windows 8 likes to store data without telling you.

Customer: It won't save if I don't tell it to!

It's too bad that I have a modicum of ethics. This guy's obviously not worried about me having his banking information.

[SealyStar]

But stealing his money could get you enough to quit your job and you would never have to interact with the fools again!

[Graknorke]

Forget impossible, be possible?

Catchy, vapid, doesn't really mean anything, and actually gets rather horrifying when you think about it? (Don't try and aim for what is impossible! Settle for less!)

Sounds like a school motto.

Perfect is the enemy of good enough.

[Mephisto]

Forget impossible, be possible?

Catchy, vapid, doesn't really mean anything, and actually gets rather horrifying when you think about it? (Don't try and aim for what is impossible! Settle for less!)

Sounds like a school motto.

Perfect is the enemy of good enough.

If I worried about perfection, I'd never get anything done at work.

NEVER!

Then again... I'm posting on B12 while at work. I suppose I'm not getting much done anyway.

[Descan]

I mean like, aim to do things that others tell you is impossible. Not aim to be perfect.

[Dutchling]

If I worried about perfection, I'd do nothing and just be my perfect self

edit: wait, I'm already doing that >.>

[Helgoland]

If I worried about perfection, I would not be perfect.

[kaijyuu]

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing adequately.

[misko27]

If it's worth the the seconds/minutes/hours/days/months/years/decades out of your rapidly diminishing time in your skin, it's worth well enough to benefit you the most. The laws of Dollar Auction dictate you must run a cost-benefit analysis of amount of effort between passable and best, the benefits of accomplishing adequate vs. best, determine rate of change to see if there is a point in between acceptable of 100% that would work, and then choose the best option.

That said, I subscribe to the 20-80 principle, 20 percent of the effort can be 80% of the result. No point being another mediocre everyone will ignore just as much as if you had done nothing, or even the "fine" most will get, but that last barrier, the little extras, are what can make you stand out.

[Graknorke]

If it's worth the the seconds/minutes/hours/days/months/years/decades out of your rapidly diminishing time in your skin, it's worth well enough to benefit you the most. The laws of Dollar Auction dictate you must run a cost-benefit analysis of amount of effort between passable and best, the benefits of accomplishing adequate vs. best, determine rate of change to see if there is a point in between acceptable of 100% that would work, and then choose the best option.

That said, I subscribe to the 20-80 principle, 20 percent of the effort can be 80% of the result. No point being another mediocre everyone will ignore just as much as if you had done nothing, or even the "fine" most will get, but that last barrier, the little extras, are what can make you stand out.

But you cannot stand out at everything, and if you try to do everything to a fantabulous degree you'll end up with everything else that you've been neglecting turning out shitty.
Also I don't really care about standing out since there is no way anything I do will be above "good enough". So the best way to go about it is to not try better than that, and instead just make sure I can do it consistently.

[Flying Dice]

The key is to maintain a consistent level of mediocrity so that when it really matters you can pull out all the stops for a brief time. Then go back to being mediocre; it wouldn't do to have people expect peak performance from you at all times, unless you're looking to die of stress.

[Xantalos]

The key is to maintain a consistent level of mediocrity so that when it really matters you can pull out all the stops for a brief time. Then go back to being mediocre; it wouldn't do to have people expect peak performance from you at all times, unless you're looking to die of stress.

This speaks the truth. Otherwise tiptop becomes the new mediocre.

[Graknorke]

Followers of ALI (as) NEVER. BOW DOWN. To SATAN or his CRONIES ! LIVE like ALI. Die LIKE husayn . BRAVO. IRAN. The. ONLY. Jewel in the ISLAMIC crown.

From this news article's comments. I can't even comprehend.

[SealyStar]

Followers of ALI (as) NEVER. BOW DOWN. To SATAN or his CRONIES ! LIVE like ALI. Die LIKE husayn . BRAVO. IRAN. The. ONLY. Jewel in the ISLAMIC crown.

From this news article's comments. I can't even comprehend.

"Jihad! Jihad!"