Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is the squiggly careers podcast where every week we share some ideas and some tools that we really hope will help you to navigate that squiggly career with a bit more confidence and control.

And if this is the first time that you've listened, it might be useful for you to know that alongside the podcast, we also produce a range of different

resources, which sounds very formal, but some stuff to help you with your learning, including

a pod sheet, which is a downloadable summary. We have pod notes, which are swipable summaries.

They're quite quick and easy. And then we put it all together into pod mail. You can get

all of that stuff from our website. If you go to amazingif.com,

click on the podcast page. You'll basically find everything there. And if you ever can't find it,

just email us. We're Helen and Sarah at squiggly careers.com. And so this week, we're talking

about when it's great to be good enough. So the context for this topic is there is so much

happening in all of our squiggly careers and in our weeks that if you try to do everything to an equal standard, you are going to get in your own way.

Well, equally high standard, I suppose.

Yes, equally high standards. Yeah, if you do it all to an equally low standard, that's a different problem altogether.

But I do think this is probably one of those classic areas of self-sabotage

where, you know, if you've got really high standards all the time, you're not discerning

about sort of where you apply those standards. Everything takes a lot of time. You probably

don't involve people in the right way. And there are moments where pace and progress are more important than a very,

very high quality bar. And not only can it hold you back, I think it can hold back the people

around you too, because it becomes a source of stress. It can create issues across your team.

If you're a manager, we know the number one reason people find managers difficult is

micromanagement. And that could definitely come from this sense of everything has to be amazing

all of the time or kind of fear of failure. So what we're not saying is do less better. So sort of

try and reduce the amount of things you're doing and just have this high quality bar the whole

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