Perfection Kills

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In the quest for perfection, if you focus too much on every single detail, you are wasting your time.

We'll be in your inbox every morning Monday-Saturday with all the day’s top business news, inspiring stories, best advice and exclusive reporting from Entrepreneur. But because of that pride and paternal need to protect there’s also a more pronounced outlet for his anger and frustrations at the modern world to be heard on songs like ‘Mayday’ and ‘Too Far Gone’. With perfectionistic people, often the unreasonable need to be right is lorded over others, much to the detriment of friendships and working relationships. Have you ever heard a very bright, small child lecturing someone in the sandbox about the correct way to make sand cookies? It means we set impossibly high standards for ourselves and sometimes for others, and we believe that we should achieve our goals effortlessly and never make mistakes, have flaws, or be disagreeable.

Patlansky may play in the manner of Hendrix and Buddy Guy by way of Lenny Kravitiz type songs, but even if by osmosis there are often little inflections of inspiration that come from the realms of avant garde or jazz fusion, the kind of cluster of notes one might more naturally expect from Adrian Belew ( Talking Heads, King Crimson) or the late Tommy Bolin ( The James Gang, Deep Purple).

But an unhealthy view that criticism is a personal attack shuts down learning and replaces it with defensiveness.Like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, perfectionism offers a false promise that you can gain control of your life by working harder, preventing mistakes, attaining more things, or accomplishing difficult tasks. Try Deliberate Disengagement - This is a conscious choice to give our attention to something specific of value rather than follow the trap of escaping reality, like mindlessly binge-watching Netflix. The result can be a sort of dark, pervasive irritability and short-temperedness in every conversation and human exchange. And contrary to popular belief, we would rather switch quickly between tasks than do them simultaneously. 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.