Newsletter Week 15 | 2022

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Hey there.

I hope you've had a great week.

What I've made for you

Book notes—Understanding How We Learn by Yana Weinstein, Megan Sumeracki, and Oliver CaviglioliOK book, but wasn't interesting for the first few chapters. I maybe got something out of 20/160 pages. But if you haven't read about learning before, it's fantastic.

On perfectionism

Perfectionism is the ideal we have in our head. The unreachable, always changing 'best' version of something.

Whenever we think we made progress towards it, it moves further ahead. It is never attainable. Just as there isn't any true Scotsman.

Perfectionists either quit or never ship, so learn to be OK with less than perfect

If we aim for perfection, we fail.

When we chase perfection, and our attempt isn't perfect, we quit. We'd rather stop when everything is going well, than endure some failures and keep pushing.And if we don't quit that time, we keep working on the same project forever.

This is a mistake.Not delivered can never be perfect.If you want excellence, deliver.

We have to just get it out there. Just hit publish. Ship it.

Perfectionism leads to procrastination

Bad procrastination is often rooted in perfectionism.

Any attempt to bring your ideas to life will always fall short of your imagination.This prevents many from ever attempting at all.

However, if you're worried that you won't do a good enough job, you can relax - because you won't, as compared to your imagination.

So you might as well try anyway.

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To your success. Regards, 

Christian Bager Bach Houmann