In modern society, we all strive to be the best. The best at sports, the best at learning, and the best at being good. It’s good to be good, to try and make the world a better place. But striving for moral perfection—trying to win at morality—is a fool’s game. Moral perfection is not only impossible, but striving for perfection is the pathway to stress, to people resenting you, and—strangely—to hampering moral progress. The flaws of moral perfectionism are why people start to dislike social movements, whether the Great Awakening or the Great Awokening, and why the famous philosopher Kant is a bad life coach. Fortunately, we’ll give you the keys to understand how to let go of moral perfectionism—just a bit —gain some humility, and then go make the world a better place. But first, we need a thought experiment to see if perfection truly is an illusion…