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We should aim for perfection -- and stop fearing failure

Jon Bowers · TED

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About

Sometimes trying your best isn't enough; when the situation demands it, you need to be perfect. For Jon Bowers, who runs a training facility for professional delivery drivers, the stakes are high -- 100 people in the US die every day in car accidents -- and it's perfection, or "a willingness to do what is difficult to achieve what is right," that he looks to achieve. He explains why we should all be equally diligent about striving toward perfection in everything we do, even if it means failing along the way.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED@UPS
Speaker
Jon Bowers
Year
2017
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Business and management, Teaching and learning
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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