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Karen Hunter Is Awesome!

Follow the Steps of MJ! (Perfection is a Process)

Karen Hunter Is Awesome!

Women's Empowerment Network

Female Empowerment, Business, Society & Culture, Women's Empowerment Network, Finances, Entertainment, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Women, Karen Hunter

5.0687 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Karen explores the meticulous process of perfection that defined Michael Jackson’s career, proving that his transcendent genius was fueled by an unrelenting dedication to his craft and constant refinement.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. So you want to be starting something? How about you start with the man in the mirror and make that change? Yes, this is going to be a conversation about Michael Jackson, but it's really a conversation about you.

0:26.4

Some of you may consider yourself a perfectionist.

0:29.3

I'm actually, being honest, not a perfectionist.

0:32.9

I am a realist.

0:34.2

I've always said perfection is a process, but I am absolutely a processor. Okay, I

0:40.9

start things and I refine things and I go back and I tweak things and then I come back to see what

0:47.6

works and then eliminate the things that aren't working. And I am a constant doer and I don't judge myself harshly because I realize that

0:59.0

anything that I'm starting, I'm probably not going to be too good at in the beginning. And if I am,

1:04.5

sometimes that also is like a false flag where you could be really good at something and the

1:08.9

next time you do it, it doesn't hit the same.

1:11.8

So I'm a person that realizes and believes that it's the process that provides perfection.

1:19.4

Perfection doesn't just come. And sometimes I just had to tell somebody on my team this.

1:24.5

I said, perfection is the enemy of good. You are spending too much time trying to

1:29.5

perfect something when you just put it out. You've been working on this thing for three weeks.

1:35.9

Finish. Finish it. And when you finish it, then you will be able to see, oh, next time,

1:41.7

or even in the process, I can do this a little better. And every time that you do

1:46.5

something, you know, the goal is to be a little bit better. But if you don't, if you never do it

1:52.5

because you're worried about it being perfect and people not thinking that it's perfect,

1:56.3

then you won't really accomplish anything. You just won't. It'll stay in draft form. I am a serial doer,

2:04.6

and I'm a serial doer. I'm almost addicted to doing because I get a thrill out of making it better,

2:12.1

anything that I do. I get a thrill. It's probably why I love, I don't love writing. I mean,

2:17.3

not lie. It's probably why I love, I don't love writing. I mean, not lie. It's probably

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