On Perfectionism, and how it stifles Creativity.

[baratron]

I am a perfectionist. Like so many of my traits (good as well as bad), I could blame this entirely on my mother. I've certainly inherited some really interesting broken brain wiring from her. To what extent it's genetic and to what extent it's learned behaviour, I don't know. But it is interesting - in its sheer brokenness

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[quiet000001]

That's the problem I have. I get ideas, and my brain goes "eh, it'll SUCK" and I don't bother writing it. I'm working on that.

[ailbhe]

This is why I don't actually hate FLYLady. She drives me buggy, but man, she's onto something. And it's working on me.

[artremis]

i have the whole failed perfectionist thing going on too.

[hatter]

The amount of footage and photos you took, compared to the final output, isn't very different from what anyone else does for professional-looking projects. You're not alone in striving for perfection there, at least the only thing it costs that way is time, unlike, say analogue photographers who often are lucky to keep one shot from a roll of 36.

the hatter