Week 7: Perfectionism: An Expensive Illusion
About this episode
The episode discusses the concept of perfectionism as an illusion and its impact on creativity and productivity.
A funny thing happened while we were reading the latest chapter of Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way. She actually had some good advice. That line about how making art is less about "thinking it up than getting it down" that’s simple, but completely true. And her description of perfectionism as "an expensive illusion of safety" hit even harder. Unpacking that idea led us somewhere unexpected: why we cling to perfectionism even when we know it's killing our productivity, where jealousy fits in,...
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