Perfection vs. Accuracy (日英併記)

Perfection vs. Accuracy (日英併記)

I recently noticed that the people around me — the ones I thought were doing everything perfectly — make mistakes too.
Mine are more frequent, but still.

I never claimed to want perfection.
But I always imagined a perfect finish.

That image of perfection made me blame myself for falling short,
and kept pushing me to be perfect.

Yet doing things perfectly was rarely possible.

Chasing perfection makes my body tense.
That tension leads to mistakes.
I’d lose confidence in what I was doing
and find myself checking things more than necessary.

So I decided to try something different.

Build accuracy, one step at a time.
That might reduce mistakes more than chasing perfection ever could.

Rather than aiming for perfect,
I accumulate moments of being accurate.

This might be one form of the form —
a pattern for becoming more precise.

Thank you for reading.

Note: As an English learner, I work with Claude for translation.

Perfection vs. Accuracy (日英併記)

I recently noticed that the people around me — the ones I thought were doing everything perfectly — make mistakes too.
Mine are more frequent, but still.

I never claimed to want perfection.
But I always imagined a perfect finish.

That image of perfection made me blame myself for falling short,
and kept pushing me to be perfect.

Yet doing things perfectly was rarely possible.

Chasing perfection makes my body tense.
That tension leads to mistakes.
I’d lose confidence in what I was doing
and find myself checking things more than necessary.

So I decided to try something different.

Build accuracy, one step at a time.
That might reduce mistakes more than chasing perfection ever could.

Rather than aiming for perfect,
I accumulate moments of being accurate.

This might be one form of the form —
a pattern for becoming more precise.

Thank you for reading.

Note: As an English learner, I work with Claude for translation.

Perfection vs. Accuracy (日英併記)

I recently noticed that the people around me — the ones I thought were doing everything perfectly — make mistakes too.
Mine are more frequent, but still.

I never claimed to want perfection.
But I always imagined a perfect finish.

That image of perfection made me blame myself for falling short,
and kept pushing me to be perfect.

Yet doing things perfectly was rarely possible.

Chasing perfection makes my body tense.
That tension leads to mistakes.
I’d lose confidence in what I was doing
and find myself checking things more than necessary.

So I decided to try something different.

Build accuracy, one step at a time.
That might reduce mistakes more than chasing perfection ever could.

Rather than aiming for perfect,
I accumulate moments of being accurate.

This might be one form of the form —
a pattern for becoming more precise.

Thank you for reading.

Note: As an English learner, I work with Claude for translation.

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完璧VS正確

最近、完璧にやってると思ってた周りの人たちも、ミスをしていることに気がついた。私のミスの量はそれ以上だけど。

私は完璧は求めてないけれど、
完璧なフィニッシュはイメージしてた。

私の完璧なイメージは完璧でない自分を責め、完璧であることを求めた。
けれど、完璧にできることは稀だった。

完璧を目指すと、緊張してしまう。
その緊張はミスを引き起こす。
自分のやってることに自信が持てなくて、
必要以上に再確認をしていた。

ならば、一つ一つ正確であることを積み重ねる。
この方がよりミスを減らせるのではないかと思い、やりはじめた。

完璧を求めるよりも
正確であることを積み重ねていく。
これは
正確であるための型の一つなのかもしれない。

最後までお読みいただきまして、ありがとうございました。