Perfection Kills

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One of the best explanations I’ve heard of this recently comes from professional poker player Annie Duke. In her book, she describes this problem of “resulting” where decisions are evaluated based on the ultimate outcome.

Like the bronze statue of the Angel of the Waters, those who pursue perfection find themselves paralyzed by the possibility of flaw, fault, or failure.” — Jamie Le Fay Did you make good decisions along the way? If you did, and the result was poor, then factors outside of your control caused a problem. There might not be much you can do about that. If you are constantly stressed about doing something perfectly (and not failing), then your imagination and creativity are squashed. And innovation, which is necessary for positive change and success, is hindered for a perfectionist. 5. You strive to keep everyone happy. Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you got, and fix it along the way.” — Paul Arden How can we reconcile what we thought was at the root of productivity with maintaining optimal performance at times of greater disruption?Chance of collisions” is non-existent as well. Since the methods that are being shimmed are part of a standard, and we’re shimming them according to standard, there’s no chance of collisions of any sort. Either implementation has those methods, or it doesn’t. If it doesn’t, methods are shimmed. That’s it. Because perfectionism comes not only from setting unrealistic expectations, but also from equating performance with self worth. Now Patlansky has opted to concentrate on the songs themselves rather than refine the way they end up sounding. Less studio work intending to produce a more “real and organic result”. Fair enough, but he wisely did pre-production work with Crous before going off on his own. What I believe Patlansky has done in fact is take a hard look at what life really means to him. He’s had a new son, and that’s naturally made him linger to be home more, with Perfection Kills being recorded in Pretoria. Well, for once, there are cases when certain scripts mess up native objects/methods in a non-compliant way. Kind of like what Prototype.js does with some of its methods (e.g. Array.prototype.map or Array.prototype.reverse; standard-compliance is planned for future releases, as far as I know). If the shim adds standard-compliant methods, and application expects those methods to be non-compliant (but script/library-specific), then there could obviously be problems. The mistake many of us make, however, is to simply look at the results. If everything turned out well, then we did a good job. If they didn’t, then we did a bad job.

DAN PATLANSKY’s 9th album, PERFECTION KILLS was released worldwide on 2 February 2018. The album was recorded at Scherzo Productions, a recording studio in Dan’s home town of Pretoria, South Africa. All the songs on PERFECTION KILLS were recorded and engineered by Jaco Naudé at Scherzo Productions, mixed by Stefan Swart in South Africa and mastered by Pete Lyman at Infrasonic Mastering U.S.A.Much of the drive toward perfectionism is an attempt to please the deeply imbedded voices of the authority figures from childhood.” – Ellen Bowers That way, your productivity goes down the drain, and you lose your precious time. Being a perfectionist may still not make you perfect in the eyes of others. Perfectionism Can Get Extreme Sometimes, paying unnecessary attention to every detail can do more harm to your productivity than good. If Fleming were hellbent on being perfect, we would never have this invention. He would return to his lab, see what was happening, freak out, throw it away because it was not perfect, and we’d all be popping zits while coughing up a lung. Self-criticism lies at the heart of unhelpful perfectionism. Like a relentless fault-finding machine, your perfectionistic, self-critical inner voice constantly evaluates your performance and points out every tiny error you make or could potentially make in the future.” – Jennifer Kemp