Outstanding is the enemy of good
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend, To mar the subject that before was well? Shakespeare In our efforts to be the best, are we eroding our ability to be good? Everyone tends to agree that high expectations are best and, of course, no one rises to a low expectation, but sometimes our expectations are unrealistically high. Sometimes we take the self-flagellating view that only the best is good enough. There are some who might argue that 'good enough' eliminates better and best and others still who counter that our understanding of 'good enough' is always subject to a raising of our collective [...]