Don't let GRRM see this.
Don't let GRRM see this.
D&D surely did
Set the bar lower...
See it? Of course heâll see it since heâs reading through the entirety of Reddit before going back to writing.
Haha exactly my first thought
When you start a task, first determine what your requirements are. When you've met those requirements, stop.
You're done.
Optimization is a never-ending time sink, and only causes that nagging feeling that maybe you could have done better. It basically turns success into failure.
I think this is a great and important distinction.
Also :
Delegation is an important skill, be it hired out or delgated to family or coworkers
To that second point, always start small and simple. Knit a coaster before tackling a 100% screen accurate Doctor Who scarf.
And don't hesitate to take advice from people who knows.
I keep having to remind myself of this. Trying to just sculpt small things in Dreams to start, but my brain keeps saying nah 100% accurate scale model of the Gorge amphitheatre!
Self care and maintenance is not unimportant.
Yeah but this is just how to finish, not how to live life in general lol.
If you're trying to finish a project, doing these things for a little while is okay I think. If you take twice as long, and lower the bar for everything all the time you'll be in trouble!
author chose a poor illustration. a better one would be the guy abandoning other less important projects like a new garden or something.
Letting a garden grow freely for a bit won't harm it. It'll probably even grow healthier. :)
Also, if Iâm stuck in a creative project, taking half an hour to mow the lawn and daydream about what I just wrote is a great way to recharge those batteries and get new ideas.
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No, youâre wrong, they never are.
What is meant with "Kill 'until'"?
The âI canât do X until Y...â
I want to rent a motorcycle and travel across the US, but I canât until the kids are old enough... until theyâre through college... until I get that promotion... until I retire... until my knee feels better... until after the grandkids are in school...
The point is donât wait to start until itâs the perfect time.
I disagree. That "Until" is there for a reason.
You descide on the "Until" by evaluating the earliest possible point something can happen, without you having to suffer harsh consequences for your actions.
The perfect time will never come, but if the time is not good enough, you're just an irresponsible adult for doing it.
Using your example:
By renting a motorcycle to travel across the US you're:
1) Leaving your kids with 1 less parental figure for a time for your personal pleasure. If you have a spouse that won't divorce your ass for doing it - go for it. Else you can't do it "until" your kids are old enough for this not to be a problem for the integrity of your family.
2) Such an endevour costs money. If you're not a position to afford it without ruining your financial situation, then fine. But that's one "until" more to observe.
Youâre right, and person youâre replying to used less suitable examples. The advice from OP is likely meant for people who would have the ability to finish tasks if not for self-imposed perfectionism getting in the way.
More to cure minor ailments like: âI cant do laundry until I mop the floor as planned in my perfect daily scheduleâ, âI canât finish this hobby art piece until i make it 120% perfect or i will not sleep for the next three daysâ, or âI canât be a decent chef until i buy that high quality cast iron panâ
... I did travel across the US on a motorcycle
... when I was 30 y/o.
I wasnât married or had a job at the time, but I sold everything I could to buy a motorcycle and camping gear and just took off. I was literally homeless for a few months, stopping into cafes to submit job applications. I met a lot of old guys and ladies along the way doing a similar trip who had waited until the timing was right (after their retirement). And countless folks stopping me in parking lots saying they wish they could do what I was doing. I always told them the same thing âMe too! Want to come?â
You had the right circumstances to do it, and I admire your courage. But would you have made the same descision if you were married with a child and a stable job that you have spent years building towards?
That scenario wouldâve been preferable to being homeless without a loving wife and children.
Iâm currently evaluating a similar situation. Iâm mid career and want to pursue an MBA to change my career path. That means being out of the job market two years and paying tuition for a return on investment that may not come. Iâd have to depend on my spouse to support me for a while... And I just got offered a promotion. And the current economy is extremely turbulent. Or I could wait UNTIL...
That's a tough one indeed. I did something similar recently - was preparing to quit my job in order to start as a junior in a different branch of my field that has more payout potential in the longterm + it's more fun.
A the same time I got offered a promotion with a significant raise.
Ultimately I decided to take the promotion and see if I liked it in the new position, while at the same time saving as much as possible on the side.
1 year later I was positive I didn't like the position so I went with my original plan and quit, but I had built up some savings to cushin the financial blow.
So that's a possible middle solution - take the promotion, with the idea that you will re-evaluate the situation in a year and prepare for the financial struggles ahead.
Also not sure if the place you plan to attend offers it but here for some tutitions it's possible to go "in absentia" (not sure if this is the correct term, that what google translate said). Essentially you are offered the study materials but not required to actively attend lectures and only go for the exams. This allows you to study while working at the same time, but it's hard to pull off, especially with a child.
This is a big one for me. I am one of those people that will buy a new outfit and wonât wear it because Iâm âsaving it for a special occasionâ and then never end up wearing it at all. I have done this countless times with shoes, earrings, etc. I have to keep telling myself there is never a âperfectâ time and I will never have all my ducks in a row before I do X
âA good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.â - Gen. George S. Patton, on planning for D-Day
Yeah, when am I supposed to stop killing? Until when? My arms are getting tired.
start using your head!
Not sure but I think it's a form of rationalizing. You keep saying it's not done until I do one more thing or until I sign off on it or until I'm ready to put the check in the mail, etc.
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One of mine is that I can only work on my writing if I have a solid 4-hour window.
Why 4?
I donno lol. I guess I feel like with less than 4 I will just be thinking about what I need to do afterward or what else I'm "supposed" to be doing. Or the time pressure will make the writing feel forced.
And what happens if you try to write when you only have an hour?
I'm genuinely curious if you've tried and you just fret the whole hour away thinking 'it's not enough, I need four minimum'
That's exactly what happens. I end up thinking the time would be better used on something that's more suited for an hour, like vacuuming or doing laundry.
In the politest possible way I can be arsed to muster, I think you should write more, in smaller time blocs, persist until you don't have the mental block about time anymore. Or not, idk. If it works as is, then it works.
Does it work.
Hope the sentiment transfers in text...
Yes, it does, thank you! It doesn't work as is, I never have four hours. You know what, I will start. 15 mins a day. See what happens.
And I shall try to take my own advice, so thank you also.
'I need this, that and the other to draw' When in reality I need nothing more than what I've got.
Let me know if you ever want some idiots perspective on your travails. :)
I see people endlessly buying stuff or shopping for their hobby, but never starting their hobby. They feel they need just the right camera, or just the right camera bag, or at least three lenses before they can really take pictures. Or they need a better cast iron pan, or a proper gas range to really cook. Itâs partially caused by a system eager to convince you that you need just the right environment, the perfect tools, the right computer, to do your task.
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I canât speak to your particular interests, but Iâve found that most hobbies require time practicing rather than time shopping. Just be careful not to let your hobby be more about consuming rather than creating.
The secret rules actually hit home for me because I finally have the words that describe how I self sabotage myself even before the work starts.
My example is that I didnât want to begin working on a project without knowing every single contingency. I then made another âruleâ that I needed to get the info from someone before I began working. This has been stalling my project for awhile out of a fear of failure stemming from believing that I needed to know everything before I started. In reality, I could just start the project and then get feedback on how to improve it rather than waiting for the âperfect conditions.â
Some people will only travel when they feel like they can retire or if they have a certain income. I used to think this then I discovered hostels and cheaper accommodations.
Mine is "I can only work efficiently in the morning" which leads to me thinking every afternoon "I'll do it tomorrow morning because I can't do it today anymore."
While it is true that I'm most effective before noon, you sometimes don't have to be super efficient doing stuff. Doing it at 70% efficiency is much better than not doing it at all.
I have a secret rule.
I donât agree with a lot of these panes.
Also they seem to contradict one another. Should I take twice as long or kill until?
It's not "kill until" like work on something until it's done, it's kill the word/concept of "until."
i.e. avoid saying things like "I can't do Y until I'm X"
Yeah, but then why are you taking twice as long? Killing until should make your task shorter if you're removing your ifs, whens, untils etc.
That one is about slowing down. You don't have to rush through everything.
So then how did you kill the untils? You just waited them out, that's the opposite of the post.
By not waiting for an arbitrary time that you created by saying "...until X". You can slow down and not rush without an "until".
âKill until â means donât wait to start.
Theyâre going at two different problems people face when trying to finish something.
âKilling untilâ is an inelegant way of saying donât put things off by putting extraneous requirements that must be done first, if possible. People stress about needing to do x before y when really they can just go straight to y, and that stress causes them to procrastinate or quit.
âTaking twice as longâ is a way of saying you often donât have to hurry and donât have to get it done by x time. People stress about the idea of having to work hard and fast to get something done quickly or âon timeâ, and that stress causes them to procrastinate or quit.
So in other words, put together these two are saying donât worry about doing x y or z before working on your main goal and just start the main goal, and donât worry about completing your main goal quickly because you can take as much time as you need. Itâs all about destressing different aspects of attaining your goals
I can't smoke this crack UNTIL I get home.
I can't leave the country UNTIL my probation is over.
So many doors are opening for me right now!
Stop pushing it back but you can be slower
Unfortunately, this comic isnât a replacement for wisdom about when to do what. Youâll still need to try and fail several times until you get a sense of when to take your time and when to call it good enough, when to allow yourself to take things off your plate and when to keep pushing through. Itâs a good reminder, but doesnât eliminate the need to use your own judgement.
The point that the contradict one another does not mean they are invalid. Each pane solves a different set of roadblocks to "finishing". You have to match the medicine to the ailment.
You're not supposed to do them all. They're just different approaches to solving the problem of projects stretching into perpetuity. Some people struggle with never finishing anything through either perfectionism or a lack of motivation and these are great approaches for that.
The majority of my employees who report to me at work are perfectionists due to the nature of my team's role and the fact that my department's highest performers flock to these positions, and I'm constantly telling them they need to lower the bar and drop their own expectations of themselves - not because I don't appreciate their desire to produce high-quality work, but because the amount of effort it takes to get something from 80% ideal to 100% ideal far outstrips the value of that effort in comparison to the value for effort ratio of stopping at 80% of perfect on one thing and moving to the next.
When you hit diminishing returns on one thing in an environment where there's always more work to do it's simply better to accept that done is better than perfect and put your effort into the next thing.
Paid by the hour: take twice as long
I was going to say the same thing. A lot of these panels are really bad ideas.
Seems a lot like "sacrifice quality for time efficiency" which I heavily disagree with. Getting something done quick and good, is not, in my opinion, as good as taking your time and doing it great.
I don't think there is inherently anything wrong with the idea that anything worth doing is worth doing right. Nor is this comic trying to take that away. However, some people live by that mantra, but never get anything done. Or they live with too much self-imposed stress. If that rings true, these steps may help. If not, then carry on.
Exactly. I think this comic is for perfectionists who overwhelm themselves with detail until they can't see clearly anymore and usually start something else to get out of the stress. You tell yourself you'll get back to it, but the stress is daunting so you keep putting it off in lieu of something else and then you have a million half finished projects. Which feels like more failure so it's sort of a cycle.
I like the "trade perfect for done" panel. I finished something the other day that really didn't need to be perfect but I'd been staring at for way too long anyway, and it's surprising how getting something done can provide a bit of unexpected mental relief.
âTake twice as longâ. The point of the comic is that poor quality is better than nothing at all, and for many people thinking the way you do leads to nothing getting done at all.
I wouldnât say anyone is advocating for poor quality, just knowing when the quality is sufficient for completion.
right, i just keep thinking it's essentially telling you to get things done, not get things done right. Can't personally think of any sort of task or goal in my life where taking most of this advise will end up working out and not causing me to redo everything if i get it wrong.
Ultimately it depends on the task, but for some people like myself, the endless pursuit of perfect quality impedes the completion of high quality but not completely perfect output.
You're assuming "doing it great" is a possible outcome. The choice is between finishing and not finishing, not the quality of the product.
So it's more like, "sacrifice quality for time efficiency, because otherwise you'll end up with nothing".
And something is better than nothing.
Even worse "sacrifice quality, rigour and context in favour of spitting out a 'finished product' now"
Yeah if most of my co-workers could stop doing these things that would be great.
Most of these would get me fired.
Hopefully the people reading this donât build rocket ships or make medicine or do surgery make Big Macs or any other thing where âcutting cornersâ is a terrible idea.
These are not supposed to be taken literally. Use when applicable. "set the bar lower" is bad advice in most situations but if you were someone who keeps going back to the same painting for months, trying to paint the PERFECT painting becsue it's not good enough it is advice to you - in this instance, to make yourself grow and develop, it's ok to set the bar lower to allow yourself to not achieve what you wanted. It's ok to set the bar lower, take a break, say this one is done, start on a new canvas with new ideas.
Yeah I thought this was supposed to kinda be a joke thing. Like technically these are all "helpful" if the goal is simply like the comics title, "How to Finish." But they didn't actually seem like good advice broadly speaking.
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If you set the bar at an A+ but don't get all the work done because you were too busy trying to perfect the first part, you might fail. If you set the bar at 75% of a good job, well, C's get degrees.
I actually really needed this today, thank you.
last one is pretty important.
i sought perfection on my work. It led me to damage of self esteem, loss of interest, self blaming.
its not same with quantity over quallity. Just let your self do stupid, make immature result at first. Then do better than that next time.
I believe repeating the cycle is key to learn something.
Whatâs the secret rules mean?
And taking twice as long? Is that like enjoy the ride and donât rush?
The secret rule in the race depicted below is that the person could not step on the lines. Its a meaningless rule and no one else follows it.
Don't make up and/or adhere to rules that only serve as a nuance.
Oh I see. Thanks
Check this thread again. Above your comment is a great discussion on secret rules.
Thats some great stuff there!! We sometimes forget simple rules to happiness...đ
Very cool, "perfect to just done" or "lower the bar", good for workaholics that arrn't productive ...
Simple is smart.
The last one is something I struggle with a lot, but working on digital commissions has forced me to deal with it. Taking 20 days on a $30 project just isn't practical.
Kill until what?
Until your bloodlust is satisfied.
I thought it was "Finnish" at first and was about to stand up for Finland haha
What I like the most is that his bird friend was in every pane
What are the âsecret rulesâ
"You need to go to college to have a good life."
"You need to be somewhat in shape or thin to start this exercise program."
"You need to have talent from a young age to make art."
"I need to 'figure myself out' before I can start doing [insert activity]."
Basically all sorts of untrue or only half-true things people tell themselves that end up as barriers to moving forward.
dr seuss vibes
Why isn't "try hard until you complete it" an option.
All of these seem really low productivity, this isn't how the world works
Because that's the default, and a lot of times that doesn't work or leads to frustration. Most people can't try hard at every aspect in life.
Yes lower your standards and then wonder why the quality of everything has gone to shit
If you want to be out of a good job... try this.
I understand the premise, but it comes off to me as half assed is an acceptable way to finish something. While technically true, in my opinion, half assed isn't the way to finish things that are worth while. Make more work for you later by declaring victory before you should by changing the goal to something other than what it was when you started
âKill âuntilââ might be my new favorite phrase
Almost an agile manifest
OP you'll never know how much i needed to see this today.
Thank you.
Practice makes perfect no practice makes better
A lot of these seem like really bad ideas
So, I don't think these things presented are meant to be all at once or an all the time thing. Obviously if you do these all at once it contradicts each other and can result in low quality work. However, each thing can be a thing to think about when trying to finish a project and I've done all of these at some point to just finish. A key thing is to finish though, because once you go through all the steps in almost anything and get a bigger picture of things you can do it again noticeably faster and better.
Lol
'Take twice as long' is one of the reasons I đ„đ°đŻ'đ” finish things.
I was gonna come up with something really clever to comment, but then I read this comic.
For some reason I read the title as âHow to Finnishâ and was about to become very indignant with the first few panels.
âŠclearly Iâm too tired to function today.
âfucking thank youâ he screams into his phone as he continues to put off turning in his final assignments at the end of a nightmare quarter!
How did he take out of oven that big cake?
Underachievement, under deliver, procrastinate, put up blinders to other problems, complete tasks out of order, and lower your standards. This is supposed to be motivating? Avoiding perfectionism deadlock is one thing but this feels like it missed the point.
Set the bar lower is dreadful advice. Imagine if the visionaries of our time had done that.
Trade perfect for done is excellent however!
Perfectionism is often a result of being raised t a narcissistic parent. It only keeps you in a place you'd rather not be for too long
Thank you!
Thank you for making me smile today
I agree with most of this but how does "take twice as long" help you finish something?
This is assuming you do the right thing. Something along the lines of when building, you measure twice, cut once. Take the extra time to make sure youâre right because if youâre not, it may take much longer than intended or cost a lot more.
This is one of the most motivating things I've seen on this subreddit
This is 8 ways to be mediocre. Is that what people work for now a days? To be as average as possible?
"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly."
One of the best axioms I've ever heard.
I definitely needed this
Wow, I need this, I need to frame this next to my work station
until i read the comments i thought the last panel said âtrade respect for doneâ and i thought that was a huge swing in tone
Go to Prison for murdering "Until"
*zip this isnt what I was expecting.
"Have twice as much fun," really makes it for me!
I basically live by the bottom 2 - make it fun and get it done.
Ngl when I read Kill until, my first thought was: until when? When am I supposed to stop killing and what am I killing? xD
Yeah this chicken looks done to me.
I love this so much! Thank you!!!!!
This just tells me to lower my standards, that's how I got in such a mess in the first place.
as an engineer this is aweful advice lol
Damn I actually donât walk on cracks and have never in my life been called out for it until just now
I don't understand the top right panel
So... How to half ass something, miss your deadlines, lower quality and fail at responsibility.
Some of these can be dangerous and understood the wrong way if not explained
image downloaded
Instructions unclear, ended up creating a biological weapon
This got me when it said,"Set the bars lower"
Basically, half ass it and be ok with that.
Just curious, does anyone feel all these are common sense and do them naturally?
oh the irony of reading this just before a big deadline
im gonna die
Last one is my biggest problem. Prefectionism is a bitch. I always try to think abou the pottery class story. Half the class is told to make one perfect pot, the other is told to make as many as possible not matter how ugly. Guess who makes better pots by the end of the class.
Cd Projekt Red needs to see this
Kill until when??
I like the last one! One of my civic education teachers once told me that a person's goal should always, always be unobtainable. I mean "beyond the realm of possibilities" unobtainable.
If you want to "draw better" you'll get stumped after getting better once or twice since it just goes on forever. By making an unobtainable goal like "I want to draw something so scary anyone who sees it dies of fright" (for example), you will continue to better yourself without ever reaching that "I got better, but it's not good enough" blockage.
He was such an amazing teacher.
When you objectively know all of this but physically canât bring yourself to do it
Only if you're just beginning in something
Once you know how to do it, these are the opposite of what you should do, as they lower your quality and ability to grow
Secret rules?
I love this so much.
It's awesome. But hey, please tell me how start too :(
What does "kill until" refer to?
This should be titled "how to not give up" instead.
Seems like a guide on how to strive for mediocrity. Might as well crowd around a ford focus and clap.
I'm gonna clap for the guy with a Ford focus and a custom paint job, before I clap for the guy who's had a scrapped classic car lying in his garage for years.
Ford focus is worse than mediocrity though. I show know, Iâve owned two of them (like an idiot).
Agreed, but other mid level cars don't fit the specific obscure reference from fired up.
If you put "plan properly" first you can do all of these properly.
If you're a surgeon, I don't recommend you do this.
Thatâs terrible advice. Nobody ever said âpractice makes done.â
I'm not sure this is the best advice....
how to finish
"Yo Mike, how's your book coming?"
"Well instead of a novel, it's now a novelette and I didn't bother the grammar or spelling parse because it took too long and also I cut away all the bits of dialogue because it wasn't important now that it's a novelette and also I might be finished by 2030 but who knows. Because who needs deadlines?"
The neglect the unimportant is a stupid panel. I have a neighbor that had their lawn like this and it makes everybody mad at them.
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But you can be given fees and such if you live in an hoa. Not to mention itâs disrespectful
r/shittylifeprotips
wow , def needed this
How this reads in reality (lLeft to right)
Not sure why youâre getting downvoted. If any downvoters would like to explain how this is inaccurate Iâd love to know.
People don't like facing the reality that they are lazy and are settling for mediocrity.
Its the modern world bayybee!
This wonât help me cum
This post isnt motivating, its just telling you to be lazy with extra steps and not to strive to be better. Fuck outta here with your weakling mentality sheit
All of these are terrible advice on how to do something poorly and spend the rest of your days trying to fix what you've done.
Consider eating a healthy dose of 20g of lead.
Don't be a dick.
It might be bad advice in your eyes. Not an excuse to tell someone to off themselves.
Consider fucking off with that attitude.
Do take that advice as well.
im good actually, I havent told anyone to kill themselves. Good day though, hope you grow up
Still do take that advice
âTrade perfect for done. â This is the advice I needed for my effing 10000 home projects and repairs I need to compete.
"Perfect is the enemy of good"
Good is good
I once heard a similar quote from a soviet navy admiral that went âBetter is the enemy of good enoughâ I heard this quote in a video about a nuclear accident aboard a soviet navy submarine just be careful with that logic
Well this applies to situations where absolute precision isnât required. Not life and death situations. âThe seal on that radioactive material is pretty good!â But the point is perfection is almost by definition impossible in anything and if trying to achieve it prevents you from attempting something - just aim for good.
Always aim for better because better is the enemy of cat 5 nuclear catastrophes
Who is that young go-getter Smithers?
That's Homer Simspon, sir, one of your Neolithic troglodytes from sector 7G.
I read them in the voices even my own words
I used to work in a high precision trade - machining. Or taking steel and carving it into useful parts. A lot of times we would need to work to insane sizes, like 0.0001 inches (a human hair is 0.003 inches, or 30 times bigger, for reference). You would think perfection would be the order of the day, but it really wasnt.
We had tolerances- how far you can deviate from perfect and still be considered "good enough to ship", procedures on how to achieve even the smallest and tightest of tolerances, and several tricks to pull parts that were out of tolerance into tolerance. It took something that would have been near impossible to accomplish, and made it possible to train people in an afternoon to do it.
Point is, getting to perfect is near impossible, but you can get incredibly close if you take the time to learn, gather the appropriate tools, and do your honest best. And give yourself some tolerances, allow being off by a bit to be just as good as perfection.
Tolerances - thats kind of what I was thinking - only said much better! I guess mine was good ... not perfect!
Yeah but basically what happend here is that the protective measures weren't good enough lol. Also 99% of nuclear axcidents are human failure not technical
However there are technical and organisational measures to prevent human errors that could've been there and weren't.
https://youtu.be/4jvQFoT9scg I think itâs somewhat of an omnifail apart from the crew
You mean humam fail, or you are being sarcastic.
But even then imo this is still more a human fail, because it basically is the result of the decsion to run that submarine even though there were severe technical issued that should have been fixed first.
In that sense it is not the result of some unforseen technical failure, but bad decision making in advance if the katastrophe.
Omnifail?
Kind of, but not really. If your hypothetical nuclear reactor goes boom due to human failure it is not because the brain of some safetydircetor had a meltdown, but because of mismanagement and ignoreing the signs of a coming catastrophy.
Same thing here. It wasn't suddenly the bordcomputer failing, rendering the submarine immanouverbale, leading it to crash/sink or something alike. It was the decision to safe on proper maintainance and ignoreing serious technological issues, by humans.
Yes, and he is correct. But "at all" is not necessarily good enough.
âDonât let perfect be the enemy of doneâ is what Iâve always heard
"good 'nuff man says good 'nuff" I hear when something is wrong.....
I taught one of my old coworkers this. She was always too concerned with getting the perfect answer even when our boss said it was good enough.
âPerfection is the enemy of progress.â
A lot of managers use that euphemism because they can't understand the better product and get confused when you try to explain it to them. Especially in tech. There is the correct way to do things and that rarely gets done for a variety of reasons. But figuring out the best way to do something is why you have architecture and just because people don't understand "best" and how to differentiate it from perfect, shouldn't make them feel comfortable rendering judgment. For those of you who manage by platitude and euphemism, maybe learn to take a back seat and stop spiking the wheel.
Perfect has worked for me my whole life. Probably why I excel while others tread water. I've never been a good enough person.
What specific area does this work best for you where it gives you the advantage over others?
I can imagine some pursuits were an extraordinarily high level of "perfect" performance would be a competitive advantage, whereas other activities that would consume vast swaths of time to accomplish perfection with no discernable benefit.
e.g., housekeeping & home maintenance could consume 100% of your time if your home must be at all times perfect.
whereas
Symphony orchestra performers must train to be as close as possible to near-perfect.
It's the mindset. Amy time I lose chasing perfection when it can't be achieved is more than made up for when I actually achieve perfection. My job is an engineer with dangerous equipment. I have to be absolutely perfect or people can die. If I didn't have my perfect attitude I wouldn't be able to do my job as well as I do.
I fully realize perfection can't be reasonably reached all the time. The pursuit is still worth it.
And yet you have such a fragile ego that you feel the need to talk yourself up above a bunch of forum strangers.
I talk myself up non stop. I'm a narcissist. Doesn't mean I'm wrong.
Depends on the home project. Some need to be perfect, otherwise, it's going to become another home project a little further down the line. And possibly with regrettable damage.
The only rule of home improvement. If you're not gonna take the time to do it right, hire a pro.
10-10-10 rule helps me with this.
Do you plan to have to redo it in 10 weeks/10 months/10years? Will your completion last/be good enough for that long?
If so, then jobs done.
Never heard of this rule. It's going straight in the toolkit. Thanks!
Same here. Perfectionism is a curse.
Good enough is perfect.
Or the more colorful, âYou know what? Fuck it. â
I'm a huge fan of, "Chuck it in the 'Fuck it bucket'."
A rare one but a good one!
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I have that with work. I know others get "away" with more mistakes but in a work environment production is valued as much if not more as making almost no mistakes. So I get good reviews, but never the best. I just take that extra time to make sure it is the best I can manage, and because quality control is just random others get praised more. Finding balance is the key in these things.
edit: yes I did it again after I posted this comment I read it 3 times correcting mistakes.
My wife hates when I use the expression "perfect is the enemy of good enough"
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How humble
I mean yeah I suppose it was a little braggy... oops. Sometimes I can't get the words out properly.
I really meant "I'm one of those rare folks who needs to do both, because I can't rest easy if it's not perfect and done." I was actually originally going to write something to that effect in more words but decided to shorten it so it sounded better. And the "rare" was supposed to be sarcastic. But it came out all wrong and... I'll just fix it
E: naw fuck it I'll just delete it I'm embarrassed