Overcoming Perfectionism with Dr. Sasha Heinz
Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik
Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com
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🗓️ 10 January 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
How do you overcome perfectionism and people-pleasing to avoid stagnation in your life and career?
Development doesn’t stop when you become an adult. But that’s when you become bombarded with numerous daily decisions—both big and small. And the more stress you’re under, the harder these decisions can feel.
We have Dr. Sasha Heinz with us today to dive deeper into this topic. She’s a developmental psychologist, an expert in positive psychology, behavioral change, and the science of getting unstuck.
When you’re under pressure, it can be easy to end up in paralysis analysis where you don’t know what to do or how to make a good decision. If you’ve ever felt like you have to be perfect and please other people in these situations, find out how you can work through this mindset in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to QuickBrain, Bites-sized brain hacks |
| 0:02.8 | for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your coach, Jim Quick. |
| 0:08.6 | Free your mind. |
| 0:10.5 | Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity. |
| 0:15.0 | I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear. |
| 0:18.0 | I knew what I needed to do and how to do it. |
| 0:20.0 | I know Kung Fu. |
| 0:22.0 | Show me. I know Kung Fu. |
| 0:24.4 | Show me. |
| 0:27.9 | Welcome back Quick Brain. Your question for today is how do you overcome the need of people please perfectionism and also paralysis analysis and have this conversation with you today. We have Dr. |
| 0:40.0 | Sasha Hines. She's a developmental psychologist. She's an expert in positive |
| 0:44.8 | psychology, behavioral change, really the art of and science of getting unstuck. |
| 0:49.6 | She has her BA, her master's, her PhD at all these amazing Ivy League institutions. |
| 0:56.2 | And I wanted to bring you on, Dr. Hines, to talk about this field of adult development. We hear about, we were talking before we started recording about child development, but development doesn't stop, you know, when you become an adult. And so we all have these issues where we feel sometimes stuck in these areas that we're talking about, you know, we feel the need to be perfect. We get paralyzed because we don't know what to do and how to make a good decision. |
| 1:24.7 | Some people have a tendency to go out there and just overly please individuals. |
| 1:31.9 | Where's all that coming from? |
| 1:34.9 | It is a great question, which we'll dive into, but I, you know, I think that we need to |
| 1:41.3 | rebrand self-help as adult development. |
| 1:45.9 | We have relegated, I think, the most important task of adulthood, and frankly, of life, of being a human from cradle to grave is our growth |
| 1:59.5 | and development over time, and we've relegated in adulthood that task to arguably the cheesiest aisle in the bookstore, right? |
| 2:11.0 | So, which is to me a tragedy, you know, I think that people are looking for help in humaning and being an adult and how to show up differently. They can recognize that they may have patterns like people pleasing and perfectionism and then of course the paralysis that comes with all of this and feel like you know what's wrong with me? I'm 45 years old. Why can I not speak up to my boss? You know, why can I not say no to that |
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