The sign on the glass of the community sports center said that. #BETTERBEATSPERFECT I was on the way to yoga class. Yes, better definitely beats perfect. Small habits make a life change.

For instance, I know that playing a piano piece from start to end for a few hours a day makes no difference. Mindful practice shows up a lot of improvement. This means, thinking actively about which area to work on, working on that area, identifying improvements. See, better beats perfect.

However commonsense is not common. Move this to art or to writing, commonsense makes a stop, kills the engine and goes and makes love to sloth. In the meantime, the mind, fixated on the dissonance experienced between good taste and poor skills, tries to make the dissonance go away by painting new pieces from start to finish, thinking, #10000hours.