Literally why my house isn’t fully decorated rn. Couches being crazy expensive isn’t helping.
BrokeMyCrayon on
“Definition of done”
Have one before you start and stick to it.
whalefromabove on
My old job used to call that getting wrapped around the axel. You keep spinning and spinning and get nowhere. Sometimes you gotta make a decision even if it’s wrong to help you understand what is right.
superawesomefiles on
I do this with streaming movies and shows all the time.
Sorry_Im_Trying on
That was me at 18, trying to figure out what to go to college for.
HoneyJojo16 on
So my day to day life?
Hefty-Pineapple-1910 on
Back in high school we had to read Anne Lamott’s [“Shitty First Drafts”](https://wrd.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/1-Shitty%20First%20Drafts.pdf) for a writing class. It should be required reading for any creative struggling with getting the process started due to paralysis by analysis.
TL;DR Your first version of something is going to be the worst version of it. Let that happen—95% of the creative process is editing.
DifferentShallot8658 on
Dr. Tracey Marks reminded me in a YouTube video earlier today that motivation *follows* action, not the other way around.
Curlyhaired_Wife on
This happens often with me and my wife when deciding what to eat for dinner. After nothing suggested is what she wants we’re both just like f it I’m not even hungry no more and don’t eat.
Morlock19 on
but don’t let *good* become the enemy of *better*
this phrase is always used to push people to accept a crappy compromise. no, things can never be perfect. but you can’t just say “this is good enough” when you could do more.
Probably_A_Variant on
I honestly needed this today
Probably_A_Variant on
I honestly needed this today
Worldly_Expression43 on
sounds like adhd
Is_It_Art_ on
They put my picture by this definition
dreams_andnightmares on
That’s me with everything. I know that I can and will be better though.
iFukDominicana on
And due to that I haven’t begun my advanced full-stack development course since it was outlined in August. I am starting today —- LITERALLY
Betopan on
Nothing happens till you get up off the couch.
AdWonderful5920 on
It’s worse than that. Perfectionists see everything in binary: it is either perfect or it is absolute shit. Because almost everything is not perfect, they walk around seeing it all as shit. And being perfect means it is just good enough. Just okay. Fucking miserable people.
ImGonnaImagineSummit on
I over analysed my first big date, went through every scenario and then panicked on the night. She was my best friend and everything alligned at the right time.
As much as we liked each other, we couldn’t get past it after 3 or 4 dates. We just sat in front of each and talked about work and things friends talked about but it wasn’t romantic in the slightest.
We called it in and we never could go back being friends.
In hindsight if we just grabbed a drink and sat next to each other and not facing each other across a dinner table hoping for something magic, we would’ve got a lot farther.
But these are life lessons you got to learn.
PassThatSpliff on
TIL, the proper name for something I’ve done pretty much every day for the last 30+ years.
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Done is better than perfect
Make it first.
Make it good later.
Jay Electronica
I like to call it getting lost in the sauce.
Definitely done this and regretted it
Me, looking at cars on the net….
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision
Literally why my house isn’t fully decorated rn. Couches being crazy expensive isn’t helping.
“Definition of done”
Have one before you start and stick to it.
My old job used to call that getting wrapped around the axel. You keep spinning and spinning and get nowhere. Sometimes you gotta make a decision even if it’s wrong to help you understand what is right.
I do this with streaming movies and shows all the time.
That was me at 18, trying to figure out what to go to college for.
So my day to day life?
Back in high school we had to read Anne Lamott’s [“Shitty First Drafts”](https://wrd.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/1-Shitty%20First%20Drafts.pdf) for a writing class. It should be required reading for any creative struggling with getting the process started due to paralysis by analysis.
TL;DR Your first version of something is going to be the worst version of it. Let that happen—95% of the creative process is editing.
Dr. Tracey Marks reminded me in a YouTube video earlier today that motivation *follows* action, not the other way around.
This happens often with me and my wife when deciding what to eat for dinner. After nothing suggested is what she wants we’re both just like f it I’m not even hungry no more and don’t eat.
but don’t let *good* become the enemy of *better*
this phrase is always used to push people to accept a crappy compromise. no, things can never be perfect. but you can’t just say “this is good enough” when you could do more.
I honestly needed this today
I honestly needed this today
sounds like adhd
They put my picture by this definition
That’s me with everything. I know that I can and will be better though.
And due to that I haven’t begun my advanced full-stack development course since it was outlined in August. I am starting today —- LITERALLY
Nothing happens till you get up off the couch.
It’s worse than that. Perfectionists see everything in binary: it is either perfect or it is absolute shit. Because almost everything is not perfect, they walk around seeing it all as shit. And being perfect means it is just good enough. Just okay. Fucking miserable people.
I over analysed my first big date, went through every scenario and then panicked on the night. She was my best friend and everything alligned at the right time.
As much as we liked each other, we couldn’t get past it after 3 or 4 dates. We just sat in front of each and talked about work and things friends talked about but it wasn’t romantic in the slightest.
We called it in and we never could go back being friends.
In hindsight if we just grabbed a drink and sat next to each other and not facing each other across a dinner table hoping for something magic, we would’ve got a lot farther.
But these are life lessons you got to learn.
TIL, the proper name for something I’ve done pretty much every day for the last 30+ years.