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8 ways to overcome your perfectionism
Productivity Books / / December 19, 2019
Danny Gregory
Copywriter, creative director, the author of several books.
Danny Gregory (Danny Gregory) in the book "Make him shut up" calls the voice inside monkey. It makes us pursue the ideal in everything: from the important project and ending unfolding shopping cart. While you are trying to achieve perfection, where it is not necessary, "imperfect" colleagues, friends climb to the top where you should be, and the time to conquer new ones. Below are tips on how to get your monkey to be quiet.
1. Replace the "perfect" to "good enough"
Review your skills and priorities in terms of the real situation, not your dreams. In most cases, "good enough" - this is the "ideal". When you have a distorted system of values and you are absorbed in the little things, do the job much more difficult.
2. Find fault with the Mona Lisa
This exercise helps us to understand that nothing is perfect in the world. Look at the world masterpiece of Leonardo da Vinci and find one or two drawbacks. Possible. ;) Even the great imperfect, to say nothing of ordinary people. Remember this every time you try to bring the project to an ideal or floor polish to a shine.
3. Make a dot instead of a comma
If you have an idea, the monkey does not leave you alone, day or night. It prepares your idea with enthusiasm naturalist.
Endless internal monologueHere it is necessary to tighten, and then develop the idea. One to remove, add another. Or maybe you have a better idea?
You can never bring it to end, You are never satisfied result. With such a monkey must be fought relentlessly: just place the point. For example, in the novel, which you just can not finish.
4. Do not let the horses die
monkey words may seem to hide the truth, which is known only to you and to her. It seems like she knows you better than anyone else in the world (warts, pimples, pockmarks and all that), and you have the feeling that you are standing naked, with your figure is far from the model. Are you sure you critique the monkey is the truth. But in fact, it is even more subjective judgment, than, for example, the opinion of your friends. Monkey knows your weak points, and hits right on target.
Where ideally, no life.
Man with perfect appearance does not exist, so you know: Monkey lying when calls reset extra kilogram or criticize the tone of your skin. Do not try to be perfect, live here and now, not in the future.
5. Just start
Looping on the ideal does not allow to take the first step. You buy a bunch of brushes and paints, before starting to draw. Waiting for the right moment - silence, inspiration, output - to write.
Paradoxically, that something is happening again when the seemingly perfect moment comes. Come visit or call you for a visit. The secret is that the ideal moment simply does not exist, so start doing anything right now, and let it be imperfect. To spite his monkey!
6. Do not think about the final result
Life - this is not a route from point A to point B. Only when planning your trip, you can endlessly draw in the imagination of the place where hold the path - be it heavenly beaches or snow-covered mountains.
When you plan the result of their work, there is a pattern in the head, from which it is difficult to move ( "we must to write a bookNecessarily in three volumes "). Chance you knock (you offer to write a comic strip, and you give up, because "it is not something"). The universe presents surprises that make our life more interesting, do not be afraid of them! Ideal - is something unnatural. Something lifeless and still.
7. Call a spade a spade
You can save it, because you do not have pen or paper, or theme, or a teacher, or the time... you are busy looking for materials for creative work or the necessary acquaintances. You get the impression that you are engaged in a flurry of activity, but it is not.
Overpower you. We all deal with everyday nonsense. Accept this fact and become easier. Separate the appearance of intense activity on the real cases.
8. Remember the story of Vermeer
In moments of extreme vocal activity of your monkey-perfectionist, remember the story of Vermeer and the girl rosemary, which in art school were asked to make a copy of one of the old masters.
I chose Vermeer. Because I love Vermeer. Needless to say that drawing, I suffered terribly. I could not get to my picture looked like a Vermeer painting, and was very disappointed. I'm so lost heart, that, instead of working with a vengeance, stopped writing altogether. I can not write like Vermeer!
Only years later, when I returned to painting, I was stunned by a simple idea: no one could write like Vermeer! Even his contemporaries. So he and the great. Now I am the master classes for young artists and tell them the story. I remind them that the most that they can do - is to give everything to complete this particular day. Do not expect that your work will look like the creation of the master, who has devoted many years of painting. I authorize that their work was not perfect, and they understand what I'm saying!
Look at the face of his monkey. What is disgusting, is not it? Surprisingly, it is far from ideal creation teaches you to perfection. Do not give her the right to vote, and then your confidence, and with it the productivity required to crawl up.
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