Perfection Is the End
- perfectionism
- growth
- stagnation
Perfection is a synonym for the end. It is the point after which growth is no longer possible.
Perfection is a synonym for the end. It is the point after which growth is no longer possible.
Old potter Kenji didn’t produce bowls - he carried on a conversation with clay. His workshop, smelling of dust and rain, was lined with shelves. They displayed not triumphs but scars: hundreds of cracked, lopsided, imperfect vessels. One day a young student, Ryo, arrived with a shining ideal in his head: a bowl thin as a petal and symmetric as the...
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