Perfection Kills

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Related: How to Overcome Perfectionism to Succeed in Business 2. Perfectionism puts too much on your plate People often miss out on their own human genius because they’re trying to be more perfect than the gods.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Perfectionism is rampant in modern culture. The pressures of the media, working hard to sustain a career, the rising cost of living combined with dwindling job opportunities, somewhat fragmented families, and the faster pace of life all contribute to unrealistic expectations of oneself and others. The result can be a sort of dark, pervasive irritability and short-temperedness in every conversation and human exchange.” – Ellen Bowers One of the best explanations I’ve heard of this recently comes from professional poker player Annie Duke. In her book, she describes this problem of “resulting” where decisions are evaluated based on the ultimate outcome.

IE DOM is a mess” doesn’t apply. We’re not dealing with DOM. And native objects are extension-friendly in IE, as far as I know.The perfect circumstances under which to do a task will never arrive, causing you to leave the task incomplete. If you keep delaying your work, you will end up doing nothing or next to nothing.

I’m actually writing a short story about a photographer who went completely insane trying to take a close-up photo of the horizon.” Quote: Not only does this cause you to miss out on opportunities that might not come around again, but it also brings your momentum to a screeching halt. Suddenly everything feels overwhelming, and you can't seem to make any progress. Setting high expectations, just beyond your reach, is what keeps you in “the zone” performing at your peak ( FLOW). But aiming for unrealistically high standards becomes debilitating.In the quest for perfectionism, you often kill your innovative ideas. This results in a negative impact on your productivity. If perfectionism is impeding your creative self, how will you improve the standard of your work?

Persevere Relentlessly – Create one-day habits: Take one day at a time to prevent being overwhelmed. This allows you to break down your workload into manageable chunks and achieve progress. Because perfectionism comes not only from setting unrealistic expectations, but also from equating performance with self worth. Tip: Rather than trying to pretend like your mistakes never happened, own up to them. Recognize that once a mistake is made, only you are in control of how you deal with it. You can choose to engage in destructive behavior (i.e. go off into a frenzy, beat yourself up, blame others, etc.), or you can choose to face the problem and solve it without attaching yourself to negative emotion. That way, your productivity goes down the drain, and you lose your precious time. Being a perfectionist may still not make you perfect in the eyes of others. Perfectionism Can Get Extreme Sometimes, paying unnecessary attention to every detail can do more harm to your productivity than good. Focus on high priority, high importance items and learn to let go of the rest. You'll be surprised how much more you can achieve when you aren't trying to do everything yourself.The losses will still feel bad, but the lessons will be helpful. And they won’t be as stark if you are celebrating lots of wins along the way. Another interesting, but likely insignificant difference is enumerability of shimmed methods. Unless methods are added using ES5 additions that allow to specify property enumerability ( Object.defineProperty or Object.defineProperties), methods end up being enumerable: At its root, perfectionism isn’t really about a deep love of being meticulous. It’s about fear. Fear of making a mistake. Fear of disappointing others. Fear of failure. Fear of success.” — Michael Law Being a perfectionist may seem to offer a number of benefits such as being more organized and having an eye for detail, which in many professions is very important. Perfectionism is a trait that makes the person constantly concerned with striving for flawlessness and perfection.

While perfectionism drives us toward unrealistic goals, it also promotes self-hatred. When a person fails at a task, they analyze and learn from it; then, they move forward. A perfectionist, on the other hand, sees nothing but the failure. They don’t learn from it because all they see is the glaring red light screaming you’re a failure, which gets in the way of anything productive.A line of questioning from someone in another division of the organization or outside of the company can shed as much (or more) light on your work than someone who is intimately familiar with the people and topics at the heart of it. Step 3: Celebrate successes and accept losses It’s not about perfection. What’s a perfect painting? What’s interesting about a perfect painting?” — Peter Doig Now Patlansky has opted to concentrate on the songs themselves rather than refine the way they end up sounding. Less studio work intending to produce a more “real and organic result”. Fair enough, but he wisely did pre-production work with Crous before going off on his own. What I believe Patlansky has done in fact is take a hard look at what life really means to him. He’s had a new son, and that’s naturally made him linger to be home more, with Perfection Kills being recorded in Pretoria.