I’ve always been a severe perfectionist, but WBW brings together a special cocktail of elements that exacerbate this problem to a ridiculous degree. For one, blog posts are one of those terrible matches for a perfectionist, because no matter what you’ve done, they can  always  be improved. I could spend a year on a post and it would stil

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But humans? We possess the strange gift of being haunted by visions of what could be, tormented by the gap between our aspirations and our abilities.

This torment has a name in cognitive science: the "taste-skill discrepancy." Your taste (your ability to recognize quality) develops faster than your skill (your ability to produce it) . This creates w... See more