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Sheryl Sandberg - Done is better than perfect.

Sheryl Sandberg - Done is better than perfect.
Sheryl Sandberg


"Done is better than perfect." - Sheryl Sandberg.

"์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ์™„๋ฃŒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‚ซ๋‹ค." - ์…ฐ๋ฆด ์ƒŒ๋“œ๋ฒ„๊ทธ.


Breaking the Perfection Trap: Why 'Done is Better Than Perfect' is Your New Secret to Success

The Leadership of Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg is a prominent American business executive, billionaire, and philanthropist who served as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Meta (formerly Facebook). Before joining Meta, she was a Vice President at Google and served as Chief of Staff for the United States Secretary of the Treasury. Sandberg is globally recognized not just for her business acumen but also for her advocacy for women in the workplace through her influential book, Lean In. She has dedicated much of her career to empowering professionals to overcome internal barriers and pursue their goals with ambition and resilience.


์…ฐ๋ฆด ์ƒŒ๋“œ๋ฒ„๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฉ”ํƒ€(๊ตฌ ํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ถ)์˜ ์ตœ๊ณ ์šด์˜์ฑ…์ž„์ž(COO)๋ฅผ ์—ญ์ž„ํ•œ ์ €๋ช…ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ธ์ด๋ฉฐ ์–ต๋งŒ์žฅ์ž์ด์ž ์ž์„ ๊ฐ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์— ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „, ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์˜ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌ์งํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์žฌ๋ฌด๋ถ€ ์žฅ๊ด€์˜ ๋น„์„œ์‹ค์žฅ์„ ์ง€๋‚ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒŒ๋“œ๋ฒ„๊ทธ๋Š” ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๊ฐ๊ฐ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ €์„œ '๋ฆฐ ์ธ(Lean In)'์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ง์žฅ ๋‚ด ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋“ค์˜ ๊ถŒ์ต์„ ์˜นํ˜ธํ•œ ์ธ๋ฌผ๋กœ๋„ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์ธ ์ธ์ •์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์ด ๋‚ด๋ฉด์˜ ์žฅ๋ฒฝ์„ ๊ทน๋ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์•ผ๋ง๊ณผ ํšŒ๋ณตํƒ„๋ ฅ์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋•๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ—Œ์‹ ํ•ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Sheryl Sandberg


Overcoming the Paralysis of Perfectionism

Sandberg famously popularized the motto, "Done is better than perfect." This powerful phrase strikes at the heart of a common struggle: perfectionism. Many people delay starting a project or refuse to release their work because they fear it isn't flawless. However, this pursuit of perfection often leads to procrastination and missed opportunities. By prioritizing the completion of a task over an unattainable ideal, we allow ourselves to move forward and gain real-world feedback. In Sandberg's view, waiting for perfection is a form of stagnation, whereas finishing a task provides a foundation for future improvement.


์ƒŒ๋“œ๋ฒ„๊ทธ๋Š” "์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‚ซ๋‹ค(Done is better than perfect)"๋ผ๋Š” ์ขŒ์šฐ๋ช…์„ ๋„๋ฆฌ ์•Œ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋ฌธ๊ตฌ๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ์ด๋“ค์ด ๊ฒช๋Š” ๊ณตํ†ต์ ์ธ ๊ณ ์ถฉ์ธ '์™„๋ฒฝ์ฃผ์˜'์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์„ ๊ฟฐ๋šซ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ž‘์—…๋ฌผ์ด ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ ๋ด ๋‘๋ ค์›Œ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ๋ฏธ๋ฃจ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฌผ์„ ์„ธ์ƒ์— ๋‚ด๋†“๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ณค ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์™„๋ฒฝ์˜ ์ถ”๊ตฌ๋Š” ์ข…์ข… ๋ฏธ๋ฃจ๋Š” ๋ฒ„๋ฆ‡๊ณผ ๊ธฐํšŒ ์ƒ์‹ค๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„๋‹ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์ด์ƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ณผ์—…์˜ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์šฐ์„ ์‹œํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์‹ค์ œ ์„ธ์ƒ์˜ ํ”ผ๋“œ๋ฐฑ์„ ์–ป์„ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒŒ๋“œ๋ฒ„๊ทธ์˜ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ์™„๋ฒฝ์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ •์ฒด์˜ ํ•œ ํ˜•ํƒœ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ผ์„ ๋๋งˆ์น˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ดˆ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฆ๋Š” ์ผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Sheryl Sandberg


The Value of Iterative Progress

The philosophy of "done is better than perfect" is a cornerstone of modern innovation and personal growth. When we ship a product or complete a project, we initiate a cycle of learning that is impossible to achieve in isolation. Real progress happens through iteration—making something, testing it, and then refining it based on actual results. This mindset reduces the anxiety of making mistakes and encourages a culture of experimentation. By focusing on output rather than flawlessly polished input, we build momentum and develop the resilience needed to handle setbacks and continuous evolution.


"์™„๋ฒฝํ•จ๋ณด๋‹ค ์™„๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ๋‚ซ๋‹ค"๋Š” ์ฒ ํ•™์€ ํ˜„๋Œ€์˜ ํ˜์‹ ๊ณผ ๊ฐœ์ธ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ์˜ ์ดˆ์„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์ถœ์‹œํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์™„๋ฃŒํ•  ๋•Œ, ํ˜ผ์ž์„œ๋Š” ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ๋„๋‹ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ํ•™์Šต์˜ ์ˆœํ™˜์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง„์งœ ์ง„๋ณด๋Š” ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ , ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธํ•˜๊ณ , ์‹ค์ œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋“ฌ๋Š” '๋ฐ˜๋ณต'์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ์‹ค์ˆ˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์„ ์ค„์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹คํ—˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์žฅ๋ คํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ ์žก์„ ๋ฐ ์—†์ด ๋‹ค๋“ฌ์–ด์ง„ ์ž…๋ ฅ๊ฐ’๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฌผ ์ž์ฒด์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ถ”์ง„๋ ฅ์„ ์–ป๊ณ  ์ขŒ์ ˆ๊ณผ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์ง„ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‹ค๋ฃฐ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํšŒ๋ณตํƒ„๋ ฅ์„ฑ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Sheryl Sandberg


Applying the Motto to Your Life

In today’s fast-paced world, speed and agility are often more valuable than exhaustive planning. Adopting Sandberg’s mantra allows you to overcome the fear of judgment and the weight of high expectations. Whether you are writing a blog post, launching a business, or learning a new skill, remind yourself that the first version doesn't have to be perfect—it just has to be done. Once you have a finished product, you have something to work with and improve upon. Let go of the need for absolute flawlessness and embrace the power of completion to reach your full potential.


์†๋„์™€ ๋ฏผ์ฒฉ์„ฑ์ด ์ฒ ์ €ํ•œ ๊ณ„ํš๋ณด๋‹ค ์ข…์ข… ๋” ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€ ์‚ฌํšŒ์—์„œ, ์ƒŒ๋“œ๋ฒ„๊ทธ์˜ ์ขŒ์šฐ๋ช…์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ํƒ€์ธ์˜ ํ‰๊ฐ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‘๋ ค์›€๊ณผ ๋†’์€ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์น˜์˜ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ๊ทน๋ณตํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ ๊ธ€์„ ์“ฐ๋“ , ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋“ , ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋“ , ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋ฒ„์ „์ด ์™„๋ฒฝํ•  ํ•„์š”๋Š” ์—†์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋‹จ์ง€ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋˜๊ธฐ๋งŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ์—๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ธฐ์‹œํ‚ค์„ธ์š”. ์ผ๋‹จ ์™„์„ฑ๋œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฌผ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋‹น์‹ ์€ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ† ๋Œ€๋กœ ์‚ผ์•„ ๋” ๋ฐœ์ „์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ ˆ๋Œ€์ ์ธ ๋ฌด๊ฒฐํ•จ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง‘์ฐฉ์„ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋†“๊ณ , ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์„ ์ตœ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฐœํœ˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด '์™„๋ฃŒ'๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ํž˜์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด์‹œ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


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