Kaizen, (continuous improvement) is a mental attitude that places more importance on the process of improving rather than on the goal of achieving (a ‘perfect’ state). It is connected to the aesthetics of wabi-sabi, a Japanese world-view whose most remarkable characteristic is that beauty is imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. For scholars such as Richard Powell, wabi-sabi just acknowledges three simple nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.