Idealism. The feeling of “not good enough”.

It makes me suffer. It will make you suffer. It makes individuals suffer.

But when idealism and perfectionism is applied to a whole society, we approach disaster.

Through government laws, controls, and war, idealism will cause suffering to millions. And it will destroy us all.

There are no solutions to make life fair; there are only trade-offs.

If I see the world as filled with bad guys and good guys, as a place of injustice that must be eradicated, then I’m creating a recipe for disaster.

Progress is good. Progress toward perfection is not.

And there’s no need to be perfect.

You’re good enough just the way you are.