If a hundred per cent is not possible, let us attempt the ninety-five per cent that is. In other words, we can’t be perfect, but it is good to aim for perfection. Which is never easy. It takes time, concentration, commitment, sacrifice. You have to give up things, certain pleasures, in order to give all your attention to the one thing that really matters—a cure for a disease, a scientific discovery, the near-perfect singing voice, mastery over a musical instrument, skill at a particular game, the completion of a literary masterpiece that people will actually read, the tilling of a field, the
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