The price to pay for perfectionism is too high. Not only exhausts the person perfectionist, but also those around.
Perfectionists are people who can not distinguish where the limit is possible, never satisfied with the results we always believe they can go a little further. They have difficulty setting goals, because the target moves away every time they come. No delegate to other people they know because they have urgent need to control even the most minute detail. They do not trust that others can do better than them. That makes constantly get stuck on small details, making any process into something long and tiring. Eventually, a perfectionist is an incompetent, never-time jobs just because the polishing, the polishing and polishing to pieces.
are critical of others, but mostly they are about themselves. They do not forgive any mistakes, and even believe they have made mistakes when they do not have. And if the errors are of others are absolutely critical and hard. This creates many problems in relationships with others.
are tested themselves, are challenged, obstacles are placed in each increasing until a time when you can not skip them. And then they are devastating. This creates great stress, which also extend over the others.
are afraid to commit the slightest mistake, because they think that the slightest mistake can be the beginning of a staircase that goes into a tailspin. Always check to make things right requires them to combat any chance of committing a small error. Sometimes prefer to do nothing, they prefer to keep quiet, so to avoid a mistake, a mistake. Huyen
the possibility of failure. This results that are lingering on small tune provided details of his projects never end. Better not to finish, to finish something wrong.
is not possible for human beings do not make mistakes. They are part of the learning process. Failure is a good reason to learn to do things differently. Perfectionists do not learn from their mistakes and try to jump over them without drawing conclusions. So constantly repeat the same processes. We learn from the mistakes much more than when things go right the first time.
pursuit of excellence, wanting to get the best results, it has nothing to do with being a perfectionist. He who strives for excellence is set attainable goals and benefits both from their mistakes as their successes. The perfectionist suffers and their goals are destructive.
Perfectionism is learned during childhood. But we can stop being perfectionists if we seek it. Here are some tips:
- # Check achievable targets
- # Enjoy the process, are not only important results
- # Learn from mistakes. Even voluntarily commit mistakes to learn from them
- # If you have to repeat something three times, let it be.
- # Delegate in others. They also have the right to be wrong
- # is better to end something with a little mistake, that would never end
- # And if something is wrong, is it serious? What's the worst that could happen?
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