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Perfectionism

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Principles

• An innate desire to do work to the best of our capability
• Types of Perfectionism

Downfalls

• Perfectionism leads to plateaus:
  1. Causes us to only do things that we know we will excel at
     • Can lead to Procrastination if we feel anxious about starting
  2. Only seek positive feedback
     • Makes us do the same things over and over again to reduce mistakes
  3. A Fixed Mindset
  4. Disregards the process and solely focuses on the destination

Prevention

• Sometimes, you just have to do what is enough to best optimize your efforts (satisfactory and suffice efforts)
  • ex) If given a hundred options, the most satisfactory and sufficient method of choosing someone would be less than half of all the applicants
• Accept Failure

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Created:: 2021-06-06 16:15 PM