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Procrastination is connected to perfectionism

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Re: Procrastination is connected to perfectionism

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I would comment on this issue, but I am still thinking about what the best comment would be....

Also, I'm concerned that readers would judge my whole existence and the entire library of my life choices if any part of my (theoretical) comment fails to be... well, perfect.

Re: Procrastination is connected to perfectionism

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I thought most good intentions are bought up by road construction companies to maintain the highway to hell...

The older I grow, the more I see many good intentions at the micro scale hurting the big picture.

Re: Procrastination is connected to perfectionism

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As a public open source (yep, open source can be private) programmer (currently x86_64 assembly), and I am very aware of this pitfall. It is very important to move forward in code, because you cannot predict how will actually end up a complex program: you need to have all the (sane) features in to actually know. Since code is all about trade-offs, there is "no perfect". You have to be carefull at avoiding falling int…

Pardon the tangent, but could you provide a link to that project?

I'm curious to see why something like printf is worth writing in assembly.

Re: Procrastination is connected to perfectionism

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I've struggled with perfectionism procrastination. For example, I've tried in the past to start a weekly newsletter for my blog but was never consistent with it.

In the middle of November, I started a daily (M-F) newsletter on topics related to DevOps. I've been consistent with it ever since.

The strategies the article outlines that have helped me the most are breaking things down into small pieces and starting small.

Also, by making my newsletter daily, it took a lot of pressure off me. I didn't feel like I had to have a "hit" every article like with weekly or monthly cadences. If the article sucked, then tomorrow is a new day with a new article.

Re: Procrastination is connected to perfectionism

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I have a pet peeve about the term perfectionism - it assumes the target of the idealized 'perfect' state is something other than the absolutely guaranteed limited resource in the world - time.

Every self-proclaimed perfectionist should start caring about time as much as they do about the object they are obsessing over. They'll then see the tradeoff in being less of a ^perfectionist^ in that thing and being more ^perfectionist^ about time.

Re: Procrastination is connected to perfectionism

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If you are into the psychological aspects of procrastination, I've found the book Procrastination by Burka and Yuen [1] an amazing read. Perfectionism is one of the themes but apparently there can be multiple, independent sources.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Procrastination-Why-You-What-About/dp...

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