Stop Trying to be Perfect
My thoughts on how to stick it to perfectionism. To be clear, Im not about to admonish you to lower your standards. In fact, I think perfectionism has its place, both professionally and personally. So the ultimate solution to perfectionism isnt to get rid of perfectionism, its to reorient your understanding of whats perfect. Perfect does not need to be a result. You can make perfection the process. The process of removing imperfection. Try putting something out there before its finished, get it criticized and let it fail. Then keep improving it by removing more imperfections. This is a new, imperfect kind of perfectionism. Its a functional form of perfectionism. One that wont drive you or the people around you fucking insane.
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