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Squaring the circle
Squaring the circle was an ancient Euclidean geometry problem that tried to construct a circle with the same area as a square. Mathematicians, being the type of people they are, thought this concept of perfection would be really cool to prove.
Alas, it proved to be impossible. They spent countless hours over several centuries coming close, but never reaching the ultimate goal.
It is one of our endearing qualities as human beings. We continually strive for the impossible. Our challenge, it seems to me, is to be able to recognize when “close enough” is “good enough.”
The thing about performance, even if it’s only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
~Daniel Day-Lewis~
In high school – you know, when you’re super self conscious – we had a math problem with a circle circumscribed around another figure. I raised my hand to explain the answer and accidentally said, “circumcised.” Oh lordy, my classmates laughed so hard. I wanted to hide under the table.