“‘Each of you is perfect the way you are,’ Zen master Suzuki Roshi told his students, adding, ‘and you can use a little improvement’—neatly reconciling acceptance with growth.”
- Daniel Goleman & Richard Davidson, Altered Traits
That’s an ideal way to reconcile acceptance with growth. And a perfect philosophy for why we do these 1%’s every day.
We are perfect how we are. But we could use a little improvement : )