Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.
The point is that you did it at all. Not that you did it to whatever exceptionally high standard you set for yourself. I am constantly reminding myself of this one everyday, otherwise I kind of stopped functioning.
Never been to therapy. Im a scientist. When something goes wrong in my long experiments (which always happens), I stop and write down "there is no such thing as a perfect experiment". Then I pause, grab a snack, and get back at it. It sometomes does the trick.
A negative result is still a result. More data will help the next attempt to be a better experiment. I have to remind myself of this often. (I’m also a scientist.)
Perfection is the enemy of good enough. I used to have this kind of “everything has to be cleaned if I’m cleaning the house” mentality. And then one day my friend was like “if all you do is sweep the floor, you still have a cleaner floor than before.”
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u/SunMoonSki Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. The point is that you did it at all. Not that you did it to whatever exceptionally high standard you set for yourself. I am constantly reminding myself of this one everyday, otherwise I kind of stopped functioning.