"Good, Better, Best.... Never Let It Rest"

 By: Erry Yulia Siahaan

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest 'Til your good is better and your better is best." This powerful quote has motivated me and my friends to manage this blog. It was St. Jerome from whom the wise statement came.

"Good, better, best" refers to continuous  improvement. Continuous can be interpreted as an endless process. There is no perfectness in the world. So, we may be good now, but perhaps we are not better than others or the best among. That is why we were so interested in these words. That is the reason to put it as the description for our blog ("CALL for Better").

If we take a look deeply the meaning inside the words, we will be amazed. "Good better best" and "never let it rest" are motivating, connote 'consistency' to attain perfection though we know there is no perfectness in this  world, push us to not be satisfied with just the good part of anything but try our best to make it perfect. Wonderful, isn't it?

It can be framed  also as important part of leadership theory, styles, and traits where someone need to adopt suitable attitude as a lifelong learner, to do self-review about the strengths and weaknesses, to  employ them in creative ways to gain better and better.

  

St. Jerome vs Tim Duncan

Jerome was a Catholic priest, born in 347 A.D. and best known for his translation of the Bible into Latin (the Vulgate), as well as his extensive writings. Not sure where Jerome got the idea for the quote, unless it was from the author of Hebrews who wrote, “Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection” (Hebrews 6:1). 

There have been some writing mentioned other name to whom the quote referred to. The name is Tim Duncan. That because  the quote was on the back of T-shirts of supporters who attributed to the prominent professional Basketball player, Tim Duncan,  from San Antonio Spurs.

Make me curious to find out more about who the real source of the quote.Finally I got that Duncan was  born in 1976, much later that when the quotes existed at first.

The most important thing is that   it does not matter actually who says what. As long as we get the meaning and follow the message to self-improve, we will be more lucky as the keeper and the doer.

Every time we as well as readers open our blog and read the description, we hope that we and they will always be reminded.

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