How to Stop Perfecting
23 Mar 2025 · 1 min
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Three ways to break the perfectionism trap: progress beats perfection, waiting for the perfect moment wastes time, and 95% is enough for almost everything. Aiming for 100% is impossible anyway.
Three ways to break the perfectionism trap: progress beats perfection, waiting for the perfect moment wastes time, and 95% is enough for almost everything. Aiming for 100% is impossible anyway.
Whenever I find myself perfecting, there are 3 different things that I keep in my mind. So the first one is progress is much more important than perfection. The second one is waiting for perfect moments causes more issues than actually doing when it's not perfect. And the third one is that 95% is often good enough for the majority of the cases. 100% just doesn't exist. That shifts my mind and gets me back to making progress.
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