The Perfectionist Trap: How To Set High Standards Without Being A Perfectionist
Dan Lok Show
Dan Lok
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🗓️ 2 June 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
One of the biggest challenges in today’s world is avoiding being a perfectionist. Have you ever felt people around you expect a lot of results and minimal failures from you? If you do, then listen now, because Dan Lok shares with you how to set high standards without being a perfectionist.
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| 0:00.0 | Finally, a half decent question. |
| 0:17.0 | How do you draw the line between perfectionism versus high standards? |
| 0:21.6 | It's actually quite simple, okay? |
| 0:24.6 | Those who are a perfectionist, |
| 0:26.6 | they are waiting and waiting for everything to line up. |
| 0:30.6 | Right, I'm gonna give you a simple example, right? |
| 0:33.6 | I wanna go from here to West Vancouver. |
| 0:36.6 | Yeah, I have to go over the bridge. |
| 0:39.3 | A perfectionist is I wait, |
| 0:41.3 | let me wait till that the road has absolutely no traffic. |
| 0:46.3 | There's no passengers. |
| 0:48.3 | In fact, I want to make sure all the lights, |
| 0:50.3 | I'm going to time it perfectly, |
| 0:52.3 | that it's going to be all green every step of the way |
| 0:54.7 | before I will start the car. That's a perfectionist. If you're letting the perfectionist in you |
| 1:01.1 | to prevent you from taking action and making progress, then you're not going to go very far. |
| 1:07.0 | Versus if you're actually making progress, you're like, okay, I'm gonna go. |
| 1:11.5 | Just like someone, if you're driving, you go and, |
| 1:14.1 | oh, there's a stop, like you stop. |
| 1:16.3 | Wait for a few seconds, okay, then I go. |
| 1:18.6 | Oh, there's a person crossing the road. |
| 1:20.4 | Okay, good, I'll wait, and you go. |
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