Is there any career in which practice leads to perfection?

 IMO

1. ‘Perfection’ is an ideal—defined by someone. Who? Who says what ‘perfection’ is in any endeavor? In business ‘success’ is often defined as ‘in specification, ahead of schedule and under budget.’
2. Japanese artists would intentionally include an imperfection in their work out of respect for Mother Nature and the desire to avoid arrogance of having achieved anything ‘perfect.’
3. Christians are encouraged to ‘be ye perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect.’ And they debate what that means endlessly. Especially in the paradoxical concepts of sin/guilt and grace and the number (600+) of commandments in the Bible. The attempt to be ‘perfect’ can lead/has led to significant mental disorders. I’m including brain chemistry issues here (ie OCD and more).
4. Religions tout the importance of becoming ‘better’ if not ‘perfect.’ Some do tout a kind of perfection in ‘enlightenment,’ ‘salvation,’ etc. IME the collected regional answers to misunderstood problems led to the creation of the world’s scriptures, which contain mountains of mythological misinformation that billions continue to foist upon defenseless children. After laboring under that ‘system’ for 48 years, I determined to rethink. 20 years of data collection led to A Song of Humanity: a science-based alternative to the world’s scriptures, an attempt to provide a more accurate, data-based, global not regional lyrical description of where we came from that one could read to children.
5. Some gymnasts have achieved ‘perfect’ 10’s in competition. There is no ‘perfect’ score in golf or baseball or football although some teams have been undefeated.
6. What’s a ‘perfect’ spouse/partner? Parent? Child? Politician? Soldier? Athlete? Lawyer? Teacher?
7. Demings once noted that every organization is perfectly designed to produce the results it’s producing. A kind of reverse-engineering, Darwinian perspective. The ‘fittest’ survive in evolution, not necessarily the strongest, rather those who adapt the ‘best’ to their environments.
8. SO, I say ‘not likely.’ In fact, bad practice can actually ingrain bad habits and make improvement more elusive, much less some idealist image of perfection. (eg golf, piano, violin, etc.)