Dan Martell - July 19, 2023


Perfectionism is procrastination in disguise.

Topics
perfectionism and procrastination
Hosted by
Dan Martell
Your past does not define your future. Do less, better.

Episode Stats


Length

42 seconds

Words per minute

192.18

Word count

136

Sentence count

11


Summary

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The world does not work off guarantees. If it was a guarantee, then everybody would just win if they followed a process. What makes people win is making a decision and then making it right, not worrying so much about making the right decision.

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00:00:00.000 Weird person in chat, my team flagged him.
00:00:01.840 And he started asking these like super scientific questions
00:00:05.200 about outcomes and objections and results and timelines
00:00:08.940 and super detailed.
00:00:10.460 And those people will never take action
00:00:13.100 because it needs to be perfect.
00:00:14.640 And they use perfection as a reason to delay.
00:00:18.080 And all perfectionism is procrastination
00:00:20.520 disguised with a cool name.
00:00:22.060 People that say that, oh yeah, I need this and this
00:00:24.400 and I need proof of this and this has got to work.
00:00:26.400 It's like, dude, why don't you go do?
00:00:28.100 The world does not work off guarantees.
00:00:30.500 If it was a guarantee,
00:00:31.900 then everybody would just win if they followed a process.
00:00:34.980 What makes people win is making a decision
00:00:37.960 and then making it right.
00:00:39.760 Not worrying so much about making the right decision.