The Constant Pursuit

Amazing 8 minute film about Philip Gould’s last two weeks before his death. Truly inspiring how he embraced the greatest of all fears.

“Perfection is always something difficult to apply; we spend lots of time on the details. we work at times for hours, days, and months on them. Then just when we say this design is finished and that it’s final, ‘It’s Perfect’, we then put it into doubt. We say - Maybe it could have been done better, Maybe if we try to study it differently, maybe if we look at it differently, if we look at it from this point of view maybe we would not see it from this point of view, so then we look at it from this point of view. We concentrate, we work a new and then we sometimes find better ideas or sometimes it returns back to the original idea. When you see that it returns to the original idea you can feel good knowing not that the design is perfect, but that you applied yourself in trying to design it better. Because if when you try to achieve 120% perfection and in the end you achieve 85%, you can remain tranquil. Because if you try to achieve perfection, absolutely perfection, you will never finish your Opera. You have to freeze your work and go onto other arguments and then with time you can refine your designs. If not, it’s not practical. This is why we are very rigorous in our perfection, but we are not aesthetic maniacs.” - Horacio Pagani

One of the best GP races in history