We should never stop doing our best

We are living in an inclusive universe which has number of people around our world. We do not exist in isolation or a universe where giving your best is a good idea because it doesn't really matter. One person is never the center or the universe so the best any person can do will be bound by time and space and in the end nothing really matters, worst, best, these are just temporal states that we should not revolves ourselves and our potentials around.

But do what you do, if you love it enough you'll do it with passion, either ways, at some point you or someone else may even outdo what you do because it is a process not a result. But I guess it's more simple to just indulge yourself in the idea that you are doing your best. Supposed I took this test and I gave it my best. Yet I failed while others passed and hence my best doesn't really matter.

Do your best while well-intended, is really a counterproductive thing to say to an intelligent person. I wish parents would stop advising it and encourage their children to aim for a particular target. “You know, if you and I spend half an hour on this math homework, you should be able to complete the problems at the end of the chapter. I’ll show you.” Now the reason is that one can never do his best. “his best” means there is nothing else he could have done.

And I have never ever undertaken any project, whether a "Do It Yourself" project around the house, or a piece of writing, or a closing argument to a jury where I could honestly say there was nothing I could have done that I couldn’t have done better. Maybe I could have measured an extra time to complete. Should I have said “who should be fired” instead of “whom should be fired?

By definition “doing my best” means I couldn’t have done it better. While that isn’t exactly the same as doing it perfectly, it might as well be. So we don’t always, in fact, we never do our best. Why? Because we’re human. Humans always make mistakes, and taken error by error, all the errors are avoidable.

Plain and simple I think self imposed limitations stem from one aspect of human life like unresolved emotional trauma and each one of us has a self. That self is molded through our relationships. The earliest relationships are some of our most forming - parental, family, caregivers etc. The term self is a paradox because self cannot exist without other. Humanity's existence is therefore defined by relationship.

But every relationship is fragile if you don't handle with care. The slightest misstep can cause a hairline crack in the self. Left unattended, or perhaps exacerbated that crack can develop into a fissure. As children, our self is delicate and easily influenced. Experiences at home, on the playground or alone can form positive or negative impressions of our self.

And therefore within the parameters of self limitation those experiences could be many. Having trouble making friends at daycare could cause a hairline crack in the self that is read back as "I'm not social, good at making friends or establishing relationships" When you know very well that there is some one out there who will do better than you. Or how ever hard you try you can't get an A in that exam and how better you get dressed still you look ugly.

Moreover the interviewer will not hire you cause people better than you already had good interviews. Because there is no skill or talent in you for something like singing or dancing and there is no meaning to your hard work, because all the things are crap. When you don't care about some other thing other than your life goal. Or you don't have enough motivation and you can't generate motivation. Finally you are the worst enemy of yourself and you are stopping yourself if you do not actually go forward and still do your best for others. Cheers!