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🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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They say that perfection is the enemy of the good. But what is true goodness in a pursuit? What does excellence actually look like and consist of?
Today, Fr. Mike urges us to practice two qualities that lie at the heart of excellence: promptness and preparedness.
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0:00.0 | I was reflecting on this when it came, what was I reflecting on? |
0:02.7 | What's the, obviously, I was thinking about this thing. |
0:05.0 | I just sat down and here we go. |
0:06.4 | Stuff I was thinking about, what was I was thinking about? |
0:08.7 | Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz |
0:09.8 | and this is the sense of resistance. |
0:11.1 | So, you know, I've been working with some students recently |
0:15.0 | and we were actually working on just, |
0:17.7 | how do we do things excellently? |
0:19.4 | Now, pause, we're gonna talk about excellence, |
0:21.7 | but I do not want to talk about perfectionism. |
0:24.0 | And not only perfectionism, |
0:26.0 | I don't wanna talk about perfection at all. |
0:27.9 | We know that the perfect is the enemy of the good. |
0:30.7 | We just know this. |
0:31.8 | We know that if I can't do something perfectly, |
0:33.9 | I don't wanna do it at all. |
0:34.9 | We know that if the goal is perfection, |
0:37.4 | then I'm never even gonna try because I can ever be perfect. |
0:42.0 | Excellence is not the same thing as perfection |
0:44.3 | and we just get that right out, right out of the gate, right away. |
0:47.2 | Excellence is simply kind of what your mind, |
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