Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines

    I have always liked the old truism , that perfection is the enemy of good enough , or is it the other way around ? Anyway , I have found that truism to be true in the case of my hobby pursuits. When I was much younger, I would strive for perfection , but usually when I would get a project close to my satisfaction , I would work on it a little bit more to make it perfect , and end up worse off for it . Nowadays, at my advanced age , I no longer strive for perfection , but instead am satisfied with a high grade of good enough . I don't think that I have given up , but have just gotten wiser . Any thoughts ?

D. E. Jones

I used the "quote" feature because you have a lot of information here I wanted to be able to access it while typing my response. My response is most often I strive for better than I did last time, I have done many of the same modifications to items and strive not so much for perfection (because I'm not really sure what that is) but really well done. You can spends hours...or days fretting over the smallest of details, some machinist spend 10 years to build an engine, my point is it can always be made better. I strive for durability, dependability, & ease of maintenance, And to be fun to play with. I enjoy the process of the build and the challenge of the project, once done to my satisfaction, I don't usually play with it much Afterwords. Just my perspective.