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What perfectionists care for
Episode 20812th January 2023 • Irresistible Communication • Dr. Michael Gerharz
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What do perfectionists care for the most? Spoiler: It’s not perfection … 

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What do perfectionist care for the most?

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Well, perfectionists care about not embarrassing themselves.

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They will go all the way to avoid embarrassment, even if that

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means not shipping their work.

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What this means is that as a perfectionist.

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You care more for your embarrassment than for your cause.

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Because if you care for your cause, shipping is inevitably part of the caring.

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It's even a responsibility when we genuinely care to make things better.

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We'd steal the world from better, if we didn't ship.

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When we care for our cause we inevitably have to care for shipping to.

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What gets us into trouble is when we get distracted along the

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way, when we start caring about, for example, what people think.

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What the critics will say, or how many sales we'll make with this.

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Then we've gone off track and stopped caring for the thing we set out to make.

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Because you can't care for two things at the same time.

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They will inevitably get into conflict.

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when you go all the way into one direction, it's

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impossible to go all the way in another direction at the same time.

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So it's a double choice.

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You choose what you care for and you choose to go all the way.

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And if you care for your cause, I mean, really care for your cause, then all

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the way means and includes shipping.

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