Doing the exercise at 13:00 by jotting down some of my thoughts: - The shame part of perfection resonates with me. I do want to avoid criticism by making things "perfect." And I managed to avoid a lot of criticism! I don't always agree that having more haters means you're doing something right... - But I also realize you just have to get started. You can't be perfect from video #1. My current videos are mostly a mess, but I've gotten better with more uploads. Someone will find it helpful anyway (like this video with no comments...yet). - At the same time, I do strive for "perfection" in unseen ways. In my email newsletters, I will manually change apostrophes and quotation marks to curly ones, remove all non-breaking spaces (;nbsp) whenever they appear, use the same number of line breaks before each heading, etc. No (sane) one is going to tell things like that apart... But it gives me a feeling of satisfaction and pride in my work. Steve Jobs cared about the quality of doing the things unseen as well... I think that's admirable. So I think there could be true perfectionism (or neuroticism lol) in some areas as well as a shame component.
Doing the exercise at 13:00 by jotting down some of my thoughts:
- The shame part of perfection resonates with me. I do want to avoid criticism by making things "perfect." And I managed to avoid a lot of criticism! I don't always agree that having more haters means you're doing something right...
- But I also realize you just have to get started. You can't be perfect from video #1. My current videos are mostly a mess, but I've gotten better with more uploads. Someone will find it helpful anyway (like this video with no comments...yet).
- At the same time, I do strive for "perfection" in unseen ways. In my email newsletters, I will manually change apostrophes and quotation marks to curly ones, remove all non-breaking spaces (;nbsp) whenever they appear, use the same number of line breaks before each heading, etc. No (sane) one is going to tell things like that apart... But it gives me a feeling of satisfaction and pride in my work.
Steve Jobs cared about the quality of doing the things unseen as well... I think that's admirable.
So I think there could be true perfectionism (or neuroticism lol) in some areas as well as a shame component.