Is Perfectionism a Bad Thing? (Ep. 11)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Popular wisdom has perfectionism as the go-to answer to, "what is your greatest weakness?" We talk about why it actually might be and what to do about it.

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0:42.4	stage of all who live here. Hi. Very motivational speech. Oh, yes. You got to go in there.
0:48.9	Absolutely. Yeah. Welcome back to the Inforium. This show is ostensible about productivity.
0:54.7	And things of that nature. Today, we're talking about perfectionism in this
1:02.4	what will surely be imperfect episode. Yep. And that's okay. We've already had an imperfect
1:08.9	start to the day because the podcast recording website that we usually use is broken. Yay.
1:16.5	So we are recording through Zoom, but then also recording locally. So it turns out better quality
1:22.5	because we care very much about the quality of audio that our listeners get to
1:28.7	subject themselves to. Yeah. I care about your ears, dear listener. Your ears are in my wishes every
1:34.9	night. Specifically the ears. One of the ears. That's it. Well, hey, this is the first
1:42.8	episode of 2021. Let's hope that this year is a little bit better.
1:49.2	The we will see. We're recording this. Don't forget. Quite a bit in advance.
1:54.0	Because we're productive. Look at this. We're so productive now. Batching things like a month ahead.
1:59.5	We're professionals. I know podcasters who will record like eight months in advance.
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