Unacknowledged Gifts Does practice really make perfect? Can anyone reach the status of perfection? The answer is obvious; everyone makes mistakes. Trying to reach society's image of flawlessness, Americans endanger themselves everyday by taking drugs, starving themselves, and taking many other risks. If there were a human without flaws, would they be considered perfect? Seeking perfection is not the answer to heroism; we should act as the ancient Greeks did and focus on our role models' positive points and forgive them for their flaws. Heracles, one of the six heroes most honored by the Greeks, was