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When you do a job perfectly, you feel on top of the world when you don’t, you feel like crap. Lao Tzu, translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English, Tao Te Ching Therefore having and not having arise together.ĭifficult and easy complement each other. “All can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness.Īll can know good as good only because there is evil. Instead, change your mindset about setbacks. But “perfecting” your way through life does more harm than good. Failure allows us to explore what works and what doesn’t. Similarly, success and failure are opposites, yet you can’t have one without the other. So, day and night coexist and balance each other out. Without night, our bodies would never rest. The black area represents “yin” and the white, “yang”: Different elements of the world come in yin/yang pairs like day/night, cold/hot and passive/active.ĭay and night are opposites, yet without day, the sun wouldn’t kiss the flowers. See how the yin yang symbol above has two equal parts, the black and white teardrops?

Shall I tell you about them? 1) Success and failure go together But after years of study and experimentation, I’ve extracted valuable lessons about perfectionism from it. Indeed, the concept of yin and yang seem far-off. Huh? What does this have to do with perfectionism ? It represents the opposing yet complementary forces that govern the universe. In short, the yin yang symbol comes from ancient Chinese philosophy, dating back to at least 3,500 years old.