15th March 2025, 1:48 PM
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Have you ever worked on something significant and found yourself always tinkering with it? While you do want it done the right way, it can be highly stressful nitpicking and sorting through all the things that may already appear to be correct the first time. In a way, this can lead to someone having compulsive behavior (perfectionism OCD) towards fixing things because they have these unhealthy, intrusive thoughts and urges to improve something that appears to be right the first time. Perfection is a double-edged sword because while it can teach you to do your absolute best in what you do, it can be contagious because then you’re constantly finding yourself making everything else perfect.
This type of behavior can be spotted at your job when your manager wants everything done a certain way, perfectly in a timely manner. It’s crunch time, and those people don’t play around! Fixing computers, cars, home appliances, songwriting, etc. There’s all sorts of different compulsive behaviors for whatever it is you’re going through. For example, you might frequently check your bedroom (before you leave your house) to see if everything is flawlessly and neatly put away, sequentially. While a perfectionist won’t leave until their bedroom looks flawless.
Nobody is perfect, but there’s always room for improvement to make things better until it meets decent satisfaction. When it does meet satisfaction, then you need to stop tinkering with it and move on. Having a strong desire towards giving your best effort in doing something is one thing, but it doesn’t have to be perfect where you’ll end up obsessing over it and losing sleep. This is also known as “Maladaptive perfectionism” where you’ve placed these extremely high, unrealistic standards on yourself to perform a task, flawlessly.
Maybe this is why a lot of you refuse to post threads on JV. Perhaps it’s because you have anxiety about your writing style not being flawless enough for everyone else to understand. Or you’re self-conscious about posting because you’re afraid of how it’ll be perceived by others. Ultimately, this ends up turning you guys into lurkers who just logs on and reads things without giving your two cents, correct? So unless it’s controversial, nobody seems to give a shit to post anything or reply because their feelings aren’t affected, I noticed that. So folks, are you obsessed with doing things perfectly, or is adequate satisfaction more up your alley?
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