writer & musical theatre lyricist

the enemy of the good

Added on by Christopher Staskel.

today i’m thinking about not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

i first encountered this idea—which is based on an aphorism attributed to Voltaire—in Gretchen Rubin’s book The Happiness Project.

just because you’re not composing a sprawling, academically-rigorous blog post with sparkling insight and original artwork doesn’t mean a just-okay blog post won’t suffice. YA KNOW, JUST AS A RANDOM EXAMPLE.