Do it badly at first then improve it

Yesterday I wrote about healthy habits. In that post I mentioned that living beings are creatures of repetition and habits.

Habits may lead to inertia and immobility.  They can cause perfectionism which arises from fear of failure. This perfectionism in turn makes one procrastinate.

However, taking action in itself may be a good habit to develop. It is good just to take action and do even if at first we do badly. Whoever came up with the idea that if it’s worth doing it’s worth doing well obviously was not aware of human behavior patterns or wanted to give us excuse for not acting.

In fact the universe was created through evolution and that’s how the best human creations happen.

In reality if it is woth doing it is worth doing badly at first and then improving it step by step, remembering when it is good enough. Improving beyond good enough may stopus from creating more and better things.

Also we should note that there is a stage of diminishing returns when squeezing the last few percents of improvement ends up being very costly in use of resources (time,money).

This was demonstrated about thirty years ago when the F16 was developed and it could beat six (way simpler and cheaper) F105s. However, in the realworld twenty F105s could easily overwhelm ten F16s which cost way more. This is because in the real world of dog fights the pilot has to decide who is friend and who is foe (FOF recognition) and this takes time. However, in the fixed air force run off (must buy the more expensive war toys) there was only the choice of shooting down the six F105s  from a great distance (beyond the range of the F105s missiles) with the advanced F16 missiles.

The point here (other than the fact that I love airplanes) is knowing when things are good enough and not evolving something beyond the good enough stage.

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I wrote the above to celebrate the fact that I just wrote  a squidoo lens on video driver updates. I had been procrastinating for a long while until I git it right. Today I decided to just go for it. I can always improve it later on. The best way to be creative is to do it badly at first then improve it through evolution.

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