Typos, Typos, Typos: The Focus on Trivialities vs Quality

Are we held back by concern over having typos appear in our work?Are we concerned over rejection, in general?Then, this book may have some key information that I think could be useful for you to ponder.If we are concerned over references to typos, then perhaps this is like being concerned about someone telling us we have "bad breath", and then brushing our teeth every five minutes, to try to avoid this comment: when in fact, it is not our "breath", generally, that some might not like, but the words coming out of our mouths!The CONTENT has become the TYPO, not the CONTAINER, in other words. And we may be failing to see this, all too often. I know I had long fallen into this pit.At the very heart of rejection, and having someone criticize us for having this and that flaw - our TYPOS, if you will - is a differing view of what is most important - Quality, or the Trivial.As well as Maintaining a facade of Quality, when what is there is more along the lines of The Trivial, in general - at least at the present time.Karen Horney MD, a psychoanalyst, had written about this, when she talked of an "Idealized Image", or what I would term, the rendering of something UN-CRITICIZABLE, from an OUTWARD perspective: combined, then, with a concealing of whatever COULD be criticized - or rejected - that is hidden from view: what is INTERNAL.Where everything is polished to a sheen, how can one criticize this? When not one molecule is "out of place", to render comment upon? Is the very flaw in this, then, the TYPO, if you will, that it is PERFECT? Too utterly UN-CRITICIZABLE?The trouble is, though, that we may have great assets in us, we are essentially "hiding under a bushel", simply because we are afraid - perhaps rightly so, in some respects - to present it to the world, lest it be termed "TYPO-Riddled"!Moreover, if we are to wait until we have "time" to get to the "polishing-out" of these typos, might we find ourselves suddenly short on time, given some sudden illness in our own lives, or in the lives of a loved one? Then what? I present, in this book, the example of just this situation, with the spiritual leader, Ram Dass, who suddenly had a stroke, one day.Besides, what is the ratio of creating content, to polishing its typos? If we create only one or two or five books, say, that's one thing; but what if we have much more "output" that that? Can we afford to constantly be paying an editor to do this polishing of our works? Or to spend the time doing so, ourselves? Indeed, the musician Prince purposefully left many of the flaws in his music, there, permanently, by choice. The typos, if you will.Perhaps we can reframe what a typo is, to include the Typos of Anger; the Typos of Fearing Something; the Typos of Feeling Shame; the Typos of Enjoying Someone Else Feel Unhappiness; the Typos of Lack of Patience; and the Typos of spending time on trivialites.This quote may illustrate this point, if we consider the concern some of us may have over the appearance of our homes - where we sleep, essentially, and keep our possessions: we may be spending unnecessary time, energy, and experiencing less happiness, overall, due to fear being criticized for having HOUSE-Typos: "'Most men are needlessly poor all of their lives because they think they must have such a house as their neighbors have', an old woodsman said more than a century ago. 'Consider how slight a shelter is absolutely necessary.'" (On Your Own in the Wilderness, 1958)Then things might fall more into perspective. Read more