# We should aim for perfection -- and stop fearing failure

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED@UPS
- Speaker: Jon Bowers
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/jon_bowers_we_should_aim_for_perfection_and_stop_fearing_failure)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [We should aim for perfection -- and stop fearing failure](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/jon_bowers_we_should_aim_for_perfection_and_stop_fearing_failure/2f380f6f9d51), 11 min (TED's player)