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The Pursuit of Perfect

Tal Ben-Shahar

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Rakhim Davletkaliyev read it
Many people call themselves perfectionists, but, to be honest, most of them aren’t in most cases. But every once in a while there is a time, a certain set of circumstances where you can’t do anything but strive for the impossible. This is a great little book about perfectionism. And yes, I will end this sentence with a comma,

on rakhim.org · 16 Aug 2026

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.