Recognizing delusions is probably the highest form of wisdom. It can help us avoid entire wasted lives.

That said, "Do-learn" sort of begs the question, and it's only a half-step. How do you know when you're polishing a turd? Who's to say this cycle is virtuous or vicious?

The second part is that after you drop your self-centered delusion of seeking perfection, you actually start to find and solve other people's problems.

It might not be pretty or fun, but that's what has value.

If you're interested in building companies, the key factor is not the technology or even the team, but the market -- the opportunity to help.

Then it's not really your ambition: it's a need that needs filling, and the question is whether you can find the people and means to do it, and you'll find both the people and the means are inspired not by your ambition, but by your vision for how to fill the need, in a kind of self-selected alignment and mutual support.