"Do now what nature demands of you. Get right to it if that's in your power. Don't look around to see if people will know about it. Don't await the perfection of Plato's Republic, but be satisfied with even the smallest step forward and regard the outcome as a small thing."-MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 9.29.(4)
("지금 자연이 당신에게 요구하는 일을 하십시오. 당신의 힘으로 할 수 있는 일이라면 바로 실행하십시오. 다른 사람들이 알아차릴지 신경 쓰지 마십시오. 플라톤의 공화국의 완성을 기다리지 말고, 작은 진전이라도 만족하고 그 결과를 작은 일로 간주하십시오." - 마르쿠스 아우렐리우스, 명상록, 9.29.(4))
Have you ever heard the expression "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough"? The idea is not to settle or compromise your standards, but rather not to become trapped by idealism.
The community organizer Saul Alinsky opens his book Rules for Radicals with a pragmatic but inspiring articulation of that idea:
"As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be-it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going ...
