{"id":3365,"date":"2009-01-26T20:05:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T01:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/2009\/01\/26\/good-enough-is-the-enemy-of-best\/"},"modified":"2009-01-26T20:05:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T01:05:04","slug":"good-enough-is-the-enemy-of-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2009\/01\/26\/good-enough-is-the-enemy-of-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Enough is the Enemy of Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cGood enough is the enemy of best.\u201d \u2013 me, sorta<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a letter I wrote to my peers earlier (long story, and you will get it soon enough) I used this phrase to express a simple sentiment \u2013 that sometimes it is easy to hang onto&#160; a situation you have and sacrifice what you want. I knew it was a concept I had heard before (many of us have), but I also vaguely remember a quote.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about it in a reply, I went looking for the exact quote\u2026 and it turns out there is an interesting story there. Sometime in the mid to late 1700\u2019s this was uttered\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLe mieux est l&#8217;ennemi du bien.\u201d ( \u201cThe better is the enemy of the good.\u201d ) \u2013 Voltaire<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, the common interpretation is actually in opposition to my usage, but one I also agree with\u2026 that often one can get so caught up in seeking perfection that you accomplish nothing. This is something much on my mind as well these days though I attribute it more to Tim Ferris who I can paraphrase as having said to <strong>not confuse being efficient with being effective<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The inverse phrase \u201cThe good is the enemy of the best\u201d is basically an anonymous proverb sometimes mistakenly attributed to Voltaire.<\/p>\n<p>So now you know, and knowing is half the battle*.<\/p>\n<p>p.s. Go Joe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGood enough is the enemy of best.\u201d \u2013 me, sorta In a letter I wrote to my peers earlier (long story, and you will get it soon enough) I used this phrase to express a simple sentiment \u2013 that sometimes it is easy to hang onto&#160; a situation you have and sacrifice what you want. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[286],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}