Dealing with Perfectionism
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HBR IdeaCast
ELLEN HENDRIKSEN: Yeah, I feel like the advice, like, you have to lower your standards or stop when things are good enough, is a little bit misguided because either if we do have some overevaluation, if we see our performance as a referendum on our value, or it’s just very important to us, like our work or whatever we’re doing is in line with our values and very important to us, we’re not going to settle for subpar or mediocre outcomes. ELLEN HENDRIKSEN: I think other-oriented perfectionism where we’re hard on the people around us, which can include our employees or our team, can often manifest as micromanagement or redoing our colleagues’ work. CURT NICKISCH: That’s Ellen Hendriksen.