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<p>This episode discusses why <strong>perfection is a dangerous and fragile goal</strong>, explaining how striving for 100% leads to <strong>unsustainable outlier states</strong>. It highlights how setting perfection as a bar can cause <strong>commitments to break and plans to fail</strong> due to a lack of slack, and offers strategies like <strong>building redundancy and planning with slack</strong> to achieve goals more effectively without relying on perfection.</p><ul><li><strong>Uncover why perfection is a dangerous and fragile goal</strong>, as it often requires exorbitant, unsustainable effort and creates outlier states that are unlikely to be maintained, referencing the "Wedies effect" where things tend to regress to the mean.</li><li><strong>Learn how planning for 100% utilisation or setting perfection as a commitment can lead to fragility</strong>, causing plans to fail when unexpected changes occur or leading to giving up altogether once a "perfect" streak is broken.</li><li>...