It is more important to be directionally accurate than perfectly accurate.
Perfect accuracy is unattainable in most cases. There are no perfectly accurate ways to express feelings, lead teams, parent kids, or get in shape, but there are hundreds of directionally accurate paths.
Waiting for perfect accuracy wastes time, delays progress, and blocks results. Waiting to express, lead, parent, or change your diet until you can do it perfectly will keep you waiting forever and cause you to suffer in the meantime.
You will never shoot if you only pull the trigger when you are guaranteed to hit bullseye. Aim to hit the target. Put shots on target. A shot on target but not bullseye is better than no shot.
Overattachment to perfect accuracy leads in the wrong direction. Even if you eventually achieve the accuracy you want, you will end up in the wrong place or too far behind.
Brick by brick. Do the work.
ONE FINAL THOUGHT:
Aim for directional accuracy
in these 10 situations.
- Giving difficult feedback
- Understanding and learning from difficult feedback you receive
- Any kind of competition
- Exercising more or better
- Eating better
- Decisions with ultra-complex factors
- Setting standards
- Resolving conflict between standards
- Resolving internal conflict (personal, family, or team)
- Taking early steps in a much longer journey
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