A Conversation for Delusions of Adequacy

Do we need a campaign?

Post 1

minorvogonpoet

Do we need a campaign - let's celebrate the adequate, the good enough?

We've been fooled by advertisers who call everything 'brilliant' 'wonderful', 'outstanding', 'exceptional'. Perhaps we've come to think we should aim to do everything wonderfully, brilliantly, exceptionally. But we fall short. smiley - sadface If we campaign to celebrate doing things adequately, well enough, maybe we'd spare everybody a load of heartache and disappointment.

We just need to decide what we mean by 'well enough' smiley - headhurts


Do we need a campaign?

Post 2

SashaQ - happysad

I'll join the campaign smiley - tea

I once had the experience of being on a committee in charge of a project, and they worked so hard to make the project perfect before putting it into use, they ended up not using it at all because they ran out of time...


Do we need a campaign?

Post 3

Icy North

It's a million percent yes from me smiley - biggrin


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