Perfectionists have a hard time doing anything where perfection isn’t achievable
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
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As a perfectionist, I feel this so much. I’ve beat myself up so much over it.
"Perfect is the enemy of good." I heard that for the first time the other day and it's really stuck with me. All I have to do is be okay with progress over completion.
Duh, there's no point in doing something if there's not enough time to make it perfect.
it's a fuckin' tightrope Spud
Fuck sake that hit me hard
But I'm sure tomorrow all the right conditions will aligned and I could (by some miracle) finish all my long due tasks... Right?
The sad thing is that I actually believed for years that I just need a bit better conditions or it's just my mindset or willpower that are stopping me from doing things that I always wanted to do. Then I started learning about what ADHD is, what it does to you and that the willpower is outside your control. I've been taught that ADHD is just some problems with concetration and that's it. Teachers also repeated to me a lot of times that I just need to try harder because they can see that I'm capable of doing more but just don't want to. Life's fun.
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Perfect is the enemy of good is an aphorism which means insistence on perfection often prevents implementation of good improvements.
Today I wrote an offer (1st time for that kind) for our customer and took about 30 minutes with all infos already know.
I cross checked the whole offer 3 times to be perfectly identical and all is fine.
God I hate myself for that. Meanwhile my (by time) junior colleague creates offers like it's nothing and my (by time) senior creates >10k offers.
I feel rrally inferior at times due to that.
Same, when I write even the simple things I check them multiple times to only still send something that has errors in it...
I highly recommend using the text to speech where possible to proofread, it’s the only thing that saves me!
Oooooh, this is genius, I will write it down somewhere.