Procrastination
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Procrastination
“Better to get your dopamine from improving your ideas than having them validated.” – Nat Friedman
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Perfectionism rarely creates perfection. You procrastinate because you’re terrified of falling short. You abandon projects because they don’t live up to insurmountable standards. You spend more time frantically burying flaws than creating something authentic.
perfectionism is a form of shame
"Most successful people are just a walking anxiety disorder harnessed for productivity."
— @awilkinson
Shane Parrishtwitter.comPainter and visual artist Chuck Close on inspiration:
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are... See more
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are... See more
Superhuman
If there is something you want to do later, do it now. There is no “later” — only a polite fiction we tell ourselves while life quietly moves the furniture. “Later” is where dreams go to suffocate under laundry piles and unread emails. It’s the mirage that keeps the camel walking, not realising the oasis was always the decision to drink now.
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