Nicolas Cole stopped chasing perfect work by remembering he'll revise it anyway. Treating each piece as a temporary step, not a final product, let him move faster and improve over time.
As a perfectionist who's been recovering for a decade, I often remind myself that no matter what I'm doing, I will always need to do it again. And so it's like, even if you're doing something once, it doesn't matter. Like, you could spend 5 years on making it perfect. It doesn't matter because you will still inevitably wake up 2 months later and be like, there's something to improve. I got to do it again. So really like shifting that mindset out of this has to be perfect. This is my thing forever into this is just a step on the journey. We're just solving for doing it once.
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