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Breaking Up with Perfectionism

WorkLife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

How to Be Creative When You're a Perfectionist

Practice can make perfect, but it doesn't make new. It's really hard as a perfectionist to have a creative insight or a fresh approach to solving a problem when you're just repeating the same habits and over again. If you can just sit comfortably with thi idea that actually there is no rule book then you can try and be creative. And it's not going to work every time, and you are going to delet more than you're going to use. But it does really help to break through a sort of mind set which teaches you that you have to be perfect times.

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