how do I stop being so perfectionistic?
>>32330944Simply be cool with imperfections.Instead of feeling bad about imperfection, be like"Yep"
Be perfectionist in certain areas and be okay with the rest
>>32330944Can you take more time to describe why you want to be less of a perfectionist, and what problems it causes you?
>>32330972I want to be less perfectionistic because it paralyzes me and prevents me from getting anything done>>32330949>>32330955how?
>>32330944Perfectionism comes from a place of fear - a fear of failure, to be precise. I should know: I fear failure because, as a child, my parents made me feel like failure was the worst thing I could do. Fail a test? Horrible. Get an F on a report card? Even worse. Hell, my grades got so bad once that my parents took out of my room everything but my bed and my desk until I got my grades back up. Even now, I barely try to do anything because I fear failure and the punishment I believe must come with it.The only way to stop trying to be perfect all the time is to push past the fear and look forward to failure. Yes, I know that sounds odd. But failure is where we learn our best lessons. Someone who coasts through life and succeeds at every little thing doesn't deal with the same kinds of bullshit as someone who has to work their ass off just to survive and fails as much as they succeed.Courage only happens when you face your fear, run through it, and look back to find that it wasn't all that much to fear. That besides, perfection is a trap - you can never reach it yourself and you will never find it in others, so stop looking for it and focus on doing the best you can with what you have.
>>32330944Acknowledge that whatever you're doing will be shit. As long as you keep that mindset, you'll subconsciously do it perfectly.
>>32330989"Perfect is the enemy of good"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
