I've listened to an audio book called "Radical Honesty" by Brad Blanton. I don't if he mentioned that in the book, but there he said "If it is worth doing, it is worth doing it poorly, until you get better. I find that to be a good antidote to my perfectionism."
I think that happens because we don't have a feedback to rely on.
If you are a journalist no way it will be published if the editor didn't evesdropped on your article? You see red marks, or something else perhaps. I don't really know as I'm not a journalist. But isn't a great system to have someone on your ass ready to critique and give you candid feedback?
A *very* seasoned software engineer, I wrote my first basic game, a lunar landing game, in Basic in 1969. Currently I am doing web development in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Elm.
Yeah, I use that quote often in teaching beginners. :) Still so true: we're (hopefully) all learning new things, doing them poorly, so we can get better. :)
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I've listened to an audio book called "Radical Honesty" by Brad Blanton. I don't if he mentioned that in the book, but there he said "If it is worth doing, it is worth doing it poorly, until you get better. I find that to be a good antidote to my perfectionism."
I think that happens because we don't have a feedback to rely on.
If you are a journalist no way it will be published if the editor didn't evesdropped on your article? You see red marks, or something else perhaps. I don't really know as I'm not a journalist. But isn't a great system to have someone on your ass ready to critique and give you candid feedback?
Yeah, I use that quote often in teaching beginners. :) Still so true: we're (hopefully) all learning new things, doing them poorly, so we can get better. :)