Day in and day out everyone strives to be perfect. We all want to impress every single person whether that be at work, at school and even at home. Everyone always wants to be the best. It's understandable, it feels good, it releases all of those happy chemicals in our brain, especially when people recognize how great we are. But, News Flash, it's really hard to be perfect. Perfect is that thing we all strive for constantly but never seem to be able to grasp for long.

Perfect is in the seconds of moments because life is a thing and we cannot live life perfectly. There is no perfect person despite what we see in the news, on Facebook, on Instagram, or in tweets. These are their perfect moment snapshots, their few seconds of bliss. And even some of those are photoshopped in Lightroom and other various editing strategies.

But I think the part we all miss is that to capture this idea of perfect, whatever that idea in your head may be, we have to try new things. And when we try new things, the first few times we might fail. That's great, that's the learning process. Fail Faster. In failing faster, we advance so much more quickly. We learn what doesn't work so that we can find something that does work. If we sit around and wait for perfection without ever testing something until we think it's perfect, we've wasted valuable time. Not only our time, our friends' time, our work's time, the free time we have to enjoy everything in life.

Failing Faster means advancing technology more quickly than we've ever done before. It means finding cures to diseases more quickly to help save patients. It means solving the worlds' problems so we can move on and just be improving. Failing faster doesn't mean wasting time, it means gaining time in the long run by learning exactly what doesn't work.

Have you ever had a leader, a teacher, or a person you didn't like? What did you take away from your experiences with them? Probably exactly what you didn't like, what didn't work for you. And, in the future, you probably applied that knowledge either as a leader yourself or in finding a better group to work with.

We're wired to work this way, we just don't because of the pressures society has put on us every day. I personally look at Instagram every now and then and think wow, I wish I had that dog, or that moment at the beach, or that perfect hair. But then I usually remind myself that these are their perfect moments, the ones they select and edit to share with me. And, if I want to chase more perfection in my life, I have to try.

I have to try new things, fail faster, learn faster, and grow faster. That's how we find more perfect moments, not through trying to be someone else, but by being ourselves and crushing it every day to make life better. Failing Faster is the only way to succeed in a world that's so focused on perfection.