A lot of us suffer from perfectionism paralysis.
What is perfectionism paralysis? It can rear its ugly head in a few ways.
The first is when we become obsessed with making something we’ve produced perfect. We won’t declare it finished, or release it into the world, until we’re satisfied with it.
But since nothing is ever perfect, we can never complete it. We end up endlessly tweaking it, never gaining the fruits of our labor, and never moving on.
The second is when the paralysis moves a bit more in the literal direction. We reach a point where there’s some aspect or improvement we want to make to a project, but we aren’t quite sure how to do it in the perfect way.
Rather than doing it in a “good enough” way so we can move on and finish, we just stop, never move forward, and never complete the project.
The third is when a certain type of high-achieving personality only wants to do something if they can excel at it.… Read more