As we claw our way to the end of a semester like no other, the Teaching & Learning Collaborative offers this pithy tip on the virtues of doing work that is not miraculous, but good enough:
“Good enough” doesn’t mean settling. “Good enough” isn’t a cop-out. “Good enough” represents an attitude of deep gratitude toward whatever happens at you. Not only is the perfect the enemy of the good, but the good is the enemy of the good enough. Follow the creed of “good enough” for long enough and something remarkable happens. The “enough” drops away like a snake sloughing its skin, and what remains is simply the “Good.”
— Eric Weiner (2020). The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons From Dead Philosophers (p. 116). Simon & Schuster