{"id":9859,"date":"2010-07-21T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2010\/07\/21\/i-try\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T19:34:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T19:34:16","slug":"i-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2010\/07\/21\/i-try\/","title":{"rendered":"perfectionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I try to maintain my composure, but I&#8217;m really becoming a much more volatile, angry person on the inside.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Be responsible, Visa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2731<\/p>\n<p>for some strange reason, this old emo blogpost is what gets search results for &#8220;visakanv perfectionism&#8221;. so&#8230; i&#8217;ll roll with it then<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"GBdcs5p8N6\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/calnewport.com\/perfectionism-is-a-losers-strategy\/\">Perfectionism is a Loser&#8217;s Strategy<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Perfectionism is a Loser&#8217;s Strategy&#8221; &#8212; Cal Newport\" src=\"https:\/\/calnewport.com\/perfectionism-is-a-losers-strategy\/embed\/#?secret=FakwEjhlwt#?secret=GBdcs5p8N6\" data-secret=\"GBdcs5p8N6\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;reflecting on my own experience of perfectionism as an author: I\u2019m perfectionist whenever I don\u2019t have sufficient clarity about what I\u2019m really trying to say. If I know what I really want to say, my work can be successful despite its imperfections&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1636251305466560512\">source tweet<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">problem with <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">perfectionism<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> is that your idea of what good is, is itself a work in progress. and the only way to improve your idea of what good is, is to make lots of stuff, typically crappy and imperfect stuff<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try to maintain my composure, but I&#8217;m really becoming a much more volatile, angry person on the inside. Be responsible, Visa. \u2731 for some strange reason, this old emo blogpost is what gets search results for &#8220;visakanv perfectionism&#8221;. so&#8230; i&#8217;ll roll with it then Perfectionism is a Loser&#8217;s Strategy&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-2z1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13737,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859\/revisions\/13737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}