I could have created an entire second project. Instead, I spent a lot of time polishing some supplemental materials that almost no one read.
This is a perfect description of what happened when I tried to write a blog for a few years. I spent endless time worrying over minor wording choices when I could have been writing new content, sharing my content in more places, or doing any number of more productive things. I hadnât connected that failure to âperfectionismâ before, but reading this post in 2016 would have been really beneficial to me.
Haha, same! My reaction to reading Luisaâs post was âOhh, wait, perfectionism is spending time inefficiently because I donât want to stopping working on one task until I think itâs good?â Calling this âperfectionismâ feels a bit misleading: from the inside it never felt like I was trying to make something perfect, just meeting an (admittedly high) bar for âgood enough.â
This is a perfect description of what happened when I tried to write a blog for a few years. I spent endless time worrying over minor wording choices when I could have been writing new content, sharing my content in more places, or doing any number of more productive things. I hadnât connected that failure to âperfectionismâ before, but reading this post in 2016 would have been really beneficial to me.
Haha, same! My reaction to reading Luisaâs post was âOhh, wait, perfectionism is spending time inefficiently because I donât want to stopping working on one task until I think itâs good?â Calling this âperfectionismâ feels a bit misleading: from the inside it never felt like I was trying to make something perfect, just meeting an (admittedly high) bar for âgood enough.â