People who want to be successful set high standards for themselves and always put their best foot forward. Their passion for excellence and their strive to be the best drives them to go the extra mile, they never stop and they never relent. Their dedication towards perfection undoubtedly supports them to achieve results. But there is a clear downside to perfectionism. As a matter of fact most successful people aren't perfectionists, they strive for it but they know what is good enough to produce positive results.
Perfectionists are risking to become discouraged when they fail to meet the high standards they have set for themselves. It often even leads to reluctance to take on new challenges or to finish tasks at hand. A drive for perfectionism carries also the danger of breeding inefficiency and causing major delays. It often creates stress overload and mediocre outcome, quite the opposite from the intended perfect result.
True perfectionists have a hard time to start things and an often an even harder time to finish them.
E.g.: a competitive dancer who is too much of a perfectionist will most likely never feel ready to go on the competition floor.
The world rewards people who take actions and who get things done, it very seldom rewards perfectionists. The only way to get things done is to accept imperfections at least most of the time. There is nothing wrong with striving towards perfectionism but realize that only after working through years of practice and experience a level of perfection can be achieved. So take action, get experience, improve with every step, learn and repeat this over and over again. In other words only by learning to except imperfections you can hope to reach a level perfectionism.
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