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https://www.careersingovernment.com/tools/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/complacency1.jpg1000664A couple months back I listened to a TED Talk by Jon Bowers titled, “We should aim for perfection – and stop fearing failure”. I could not help but consider the relationship between ideas on perfection and failure to the recent trend of near daily stories of sexual harassment and impropriety of men in positions of power.