Posts Tagged ‘perfectionism’
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Do what you love, don’t worry about perfection
Recently, a friend posted a recording on Facebook of a song she had arranged and sung, along with the text: “I arranged, performed, recorded, and mixed a pretty song. It ain’t perfect, but that’s okay.”
I played the song, and yes, there were mistakes. Exactly as she said, it’s not perfect. But it’s still lovely.…
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Fluency is not perfection
I see a lot of people talk about “redefining fluency”. The irony is, however, that the ones doing the complaining are, in fact, the ones doing the redefining. When pressed to describe fluency, they will often admit to expectations that a fluent speaker have a native-like accent, or a vocabulary of countless thousands of words,…