The pursuit of perfection and achieving excellence are opposites.

The pursuit of perfection inevitably involves investing excessive energy into unimportant details, while reality will not meet your subjective best expectations as if it were meticulously designed. Many people end up leading relatively mediocre lives because they chase their inner vision of perfection.

For example, the American education system and social incentive mechanisms encourage making mistakes, which fosters an environment of innovation and gives birth to many outstanding and great companies; whereas the social culture and incentive mechanisms in China and Japan shame making mistakes, which only ensures that companies in these countries can optimize within others' frameworks rather than build new, more impressive frameworks. Others can manage infrastructure, while we can only push applications to the extreme.

In the market, many people pursue the so-called "perfection," obsessing over copying the lowest and running to the highest, ultimately leading them astray. If you want to avoid downturns, you are destined to miss out on significant upswings; if you want to reduce drawdowns, you will have to give up some short-term windfalls. The ability to always buy at the lowest and sell at the highest exists only in fictional narratives or in the hindsight screenshots of trading mentors.

Thus, those who chase "perfection" in the market are either trapped in the maze of seeking an infallible strategy or are repeatedly deceived by those who always analyze and are perpetually "right".

Perfection exists only in expectations; no one is perfect in reality, and nothing is perfect, so why demand perfection from ourselves? Allowing ourselves to make mistakes to some extent is a prerequisite for achieving excellence.

Many people love to judge right and wrong based on short-term fluctuations; looking at short-term volatility, focusing on a single point, is no different from guessing size. Some people are impressive; either they have true talent that you cannot replicate, or they are just good at boasting, and if you believe them, you're the fool.

If your perspective can only focus on fluctuations of a single morning, then the opportunities that an ordinary person with average abilities can grasp will have nothing to do with you. If you do not allow a margin for error, it is impossible to achieve the right things. Engage in high-probability activities, pursue high-odds opportunities, and focus on whether something is cheap and cost-effective, rather than whether you were right today and made 0.62%, which is really not useful.