Assassination of the Perfectionistic Mindset - Ep 202

Assassination of the Perfectionistic Mindset - Ep 202

This is a walking podcast in which I talk about the perfectionistic mindset and make a case to meditate on death.

It is perhaps a heavy topic but I endeavor to make the case that when we approach sport as though there is a permanent record of every race we win or get dropped at, and we see this CV as something that will be read at our funeral as a meter of our worth as a human, it robs the sport of joy and misses the point of competition entirely.

Sport is about the experience of getting better. It is the entire reason we sign up for a bike race.

I did not talk about this in the podcast but the entire plot of Tron Legacy is about this exact topic: assassination of the perfectionistic mindset. Thus, you get a shot of Clu, whose mission is to “create the perfect system” in the movie.

My hope is that your takeaway will be to see where and how you are trying to create the perfect system and understand the truth: everything is wabi-sabi or “perfectly imperfect”.