What do perfectionists care for the most? Spoiler: It’s not perfection …
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What do perfectionist care for the most?
Speaker:Well, perfectionists care about not embarrassing themselves.
Speaker:They will go all the way to avoid embarrassment, even if that
Speaker:means not shipping their work.
Speaker:What this means is that as a perfectionist.
Speaker:You care more for your embarrassment than for your cause.
Speaker:Because if you care for your cause, shipping is inevitably part of the caring.
Speaker:It's even a responsibility when we genuinely care to make things better.
Speaker:We'd steal the world from better, if we didn't ship.
Speaker:When we care for our cause we inevitably have to care for shipping to.
Speaker:What gets us into trouble is when we get distracted along the
Speaker:way, when we start caring about, for example, what people think.
Speaker:What the critics will say, or how many sales we'll make with this.
Speaker:Then we've gone off track and stopped caring for the thing we set out to make.
Speaker:Because you can't care for two things at the same time.
Speaker:They will inevitably get into conflict.
Here's the thing:when you go all the way into one direction, it's
Here's the thing:impossible to go all the way in another direction at the same time.
Here's the thing:So it's a double choice.
Here's the thing:You choose what you care for and you choose to go all the way.
Here's the thing:And if you care for your cause, I mean, really care for your cause, then all
Here's the thing:the way means and includes shipping.