Progress is better than Perfection

While working in the chemical industry, I learned an important principle.

It takes substantially less time and resources to achieve 90% purity of a product. The remaining 10%, needs exponential efforts.

This is true for the problems we face in our life. Most often, we can have a sub-optimal solution for a problem in almost a flash. A perfect solution needs more thinking and resources.

In our quest for the perfect solution, we choose inaction. Here are 3 things to remember:

1. Significant progress can be achieved by small incremental improvements (Kaizen).

2. Consistent progress is more important than perfection.

3. A half-baked solution is way better than inaction. It is the starting point for breaking inertia.