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Standards vs Reality
Most perfectionists can’t see their standards are unrealistic and bad for them. To find if you’re a perfectionist, ask yourself if your standards:
- ... are higher than those of others.
- ... can be met by you or others.
- ... help or get in the way of you achieving your goals.
- ... can be relaxed without affecting much the end result.
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Asking For 30/90 Feedback
If a project is at 90%, you’re asking for line-level feedback like typos, glitches, or silly mistakes. At 30%, the reviewer skips over those things (assuming they’ll be looped in later to help with them) and focuses on the broader strokes:
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Set Limits To Your Effort
Run a small experiment where you either purposefully stop early or give yourself hard limits on your work. So you have an opportunity to disprove your perfectionistic beliefs.
Not only will this help you get over your own perfectionism, but it can also hig...
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Thinking Like An Athlete
In sports, the drive for perfectionism is a positive force and turn setbacks into opportunities to reflect, learn, and adjust your approach. But regular perfectionists keep revisiting past failures as a form of self-condemnation.
All this ...
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The Issue With Perfectionism
The more you chase perfectionism, the more likely you are to procrastinate and then get stressed out when things don’t go exactly how you wanted them to.
Research even indicates that even when perfectionists get higher salaries, they are more unhappy with their work.
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Being Comfortable With Not Knowing
To feel comfortable with the uncomfortable:
- Think what’s the worst-case scenario of a situation that's stressing you out, to see that the consequences aren’t as bad.
- Have a safety net with plans, friends, and resources to decrease your fear of failure.
- Reframe the f...
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Causes of Productivity Shame
- We link our products to our self-worth, thinking that we need to get more done, and our self-esteem depends upon it.
- We set unrealistic goals, which can be discouraging for us if we keep on focusing on the end result.
- We compare ourselves with others, who seemingly are doing ...
Identifying Difficult People
- The Perfectionist. If you are looking for quick results, perfectionists can be a source of frustration.
- Control freaks. When you want to do things your way, overly controlling types can be a source of irritation as well.
- Cr...
Self-sabotage
Self-sabotage can be defined as the action through which you undermine your worth and goals. Even though you want something, you do actions that are contrary to achieving your target. There are mainly two types of self-sabotaging behaviors, as follows:
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