🏆 PERFECTIONISM 🏆

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I think striving for perfection isn't exactly a bad thing. It's always good to set high standards for yourself, get better at something and aim to achieve something great. But the closer you get to perfection, the harder it is to improve.
If you aren't able to be perfect, making progress is the next best thing you can do.

I think it really depends on people’s behavior towards perfection and how they handle it. Competitively and professionally, yes striving for perfection isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But then you have to remember the negative side of it, maladaptive perfection, where people are constantly keeping themselves miserable about their past failures on assignments.

I used to waste too much time trying to get close to perfection because I like to do and make things that I can be proud of in the future, but I've realized that it was costing me too much time and people who weren't too focused on perfection were achieving more than I was.

Most of the time, it doesn't really matter if something isn't perfect though. You can probably get away with just "good enough".
But for some things, especially things that are very important and have a long-term impact, aiming for perfection is sometimes necessary.

Yeah, you’ll definitely find out in life that some people only require adequate satisfaction from your performance. I think that’s because they’re not concerned with you being perfect, but rather giving your best effort. In college, you can still succeed with a C or above. In self-defense, I’d be very concerned with being perfect because you want to master the moves to prepare for the real world.

There is a quote from a game designer that says: "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad".
I think this highlights the importance of doing things well if they are going to be around for a long time. For things like games, movies, architectural structures and business plans, perfection is almost essential because if they aren't done well, they won't last as long as they could have and you might as well not have wasted time working on them in the first place.

Totally agreed. At least your fans will understand why it’s delayed in the first place. What you can do is let the people know in advance that the game is going to be delayed because you want to make sure that they’re getting the best experience possible for their money. I’d rather go through that then to have them complain and nitpick over things that looked unfinished and tacky; it gives you a bad reputation at that point.

Things that play a very important role are also things that should be perfected and would be almost worthless otherwise. Two examples of this are resumés and vital tools used in healthcare.

This kind of thinking can also apply to how you spend money.
I've always wondered why people buy cheap furniture and home appliances when they had the money for something better.
Those are things that you use for a very long time, so even if a better sofa costs you an extra $1000, that's only $33 a year if you use it for 30 years.

That sounds like a long time, but my parents have been using the same fridge, sofa and bed for 30 years, and our TV is also about 20 years old. They could have had something like something like this for the last 30 years, but we have been stuck with this instead.

We can use this same analogy for people who buy shitty-looking cars for less than $10k, when they make ten times that much with no debt. Some people just like to save a ton of money and live, frugally. Personally, I’d buy brand new things if I’ve got the money to afford it. As long as my priorities are straight, then why not.

When it comes to the fridge and sofa, eventually those old and used items will break down, shortly over time. Over 5 years ago, I bought a brand new refrigerator from Lowes for $1,000. Within 4 years, the ice maker was the first thing that started trippin’. I couldn’t imagine what would happen if I had bought it, used.