Latest / Good Morning From The Chicken Coop! / Season 3 - Episode 34 - Perfectionism is killing creativity

Transcript

Season 3 - Episode 34 - Perfectionism is killing creativity · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

• 0:01
  Welcome to the Good Morning From the Chicken Coop Podcast with
• 0:04
  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermind set
• 0:08
  coach. Filled with inspiration,
• 0:10
  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
• 0:13
  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
• 0:16
  of yourself you could ever imagine.
• 0:18
  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
• 0:21
  her chicken coop along with all her chickens.
• 0:27
  Hey everybody, good morning. From the chicken coop
• 0:30
  perfectionism. Do you consider yourself a
• 0:32
  perfectionist? I used to consider myself a
• 0:35
  perfectionist when I was younger.
• 0:38
  A lot. I'm used to say, Oh no, it's got
• 0:40
  to be perfect. And I never understood the
• 0:42
  concept of looking at it and saying, well, how do you define
• 0:45
  perfect? What is perfect?
• 0:47
  What does that look like? Because, listen, everybody's
• 0:51
  version of it is different. My version of a perfect chicken
• 0:53
  coop is far different than some people's.
• 0:55
  Some people's it's, you know, just a little tiny cage and
• 0:59
  they're in there and they're good and they're like, oh, it's
• 1:00
  perfect. They're safe from predators.
• 1:02
  And me, it's more like, OK, not only do I want them to be safe,
• 1:06
  but I want them to be happy and I want them to have this vast
• 1:12
  area. I want it to be clean.
• 1:13
  I can give you an entire list of how well I thought this out, but
• 1:17
  it was all based around and the fact that OK, I just want to
• 1:21
  create something that's in unbelievable.
• 1:24
  And that to me is always like hitting the level of
• 1:26
  perfectionism. When I was a kid, I used to get
• 1:30
  assignments in school and we would have to handwrite them a
• 1:34
  certain way. And the teacher that taught us
• 1:37
  writing in second grade was just unbelievable.
• 1:40
  Mrs. Walker and she wrote the most.
• 1:43
  She had the most beautiful handwriting and she taught us
• 1:46
  all to write that. Pretty much every girl in the
• 1:48
  class had the same handwriting because we would mimic over and
• 1:52
  over and over what she did and she would say, OK, it's got to
• 1:55
  be perfect. And she didn't do it in a bad
• 1:57
  way, it was just her way of doing it.
• 1:58
  Like you don't think about those things when you give them to
• 2:00
  child's a child's mind and say, OK, here you go, this is how
• 2:04
  we're going to introduce perfectionism to you.
• 2:06
  But for me, it was just something that I dove into
• 2:11
  first. It started with handwriting.
• 2:13
  I would write and rewrite, write and rewrite everything that I
• 2:16
  possibly could because I wanted to make sure that it was done
• 2:19
  just the correct way, just perfect.
• 2:23
  But it just slowed me down and it held back a lot of my
• 2:26
  creativity because I didn't want to make things too long to
• 2:29
  write. I can remember sitting and
• 2:32
  writing a story and saying I could have this whole section,
• 2:35
  but I don't want to sit there and have to rewrite it or right
• 2:39
  in this whole thing because the penmanship had to be perfect.
• 2:42
  Now it's a silly, silly example, but the truth is, where does
• 2:46
  that show up in your life? Where does it still show up in
• 2:48
  my life? There was so many ways that we
• 2:51
  get stuck in this, and this is the point of today is not just
• 2:57
  to rail on perfectionism. The point is, what does it rob
• 3:00
  you of? And it robs you of creativity.
• 3:03
  It takes away your ability to start to think differently, to
• 3:08
  see differently, to act differently, to be creative,
• 3:11
  because you get stuck in the paradigm of perfectionism.
• 3:15
  And then all of a sudden there's no room for creativity,
• 3:19
  creativity in it, because creativity can be messy.
• 3:21
  It can be unorganized. It can say, ah, well, you know,
• 3:25
  I'm at when I'm starting something.
• 3:27
  It all seems great in the beginning, and then it looks
• 3:29
  like this big BLOB of a mess, and then all of a sudden it
• 3:32
  comes together at the end. But when perfectionism is
• 3:35
  present, that big BLOB in the middle is yucky.
• 3:39
  It feels just one simple word, yucky.
• 3:43
  And this is not just for projects or things that you're
• 3:48
  building in your world, but it's also your world itself.
• 3:52
  So if you're going through a huge transition right now and it
• 3:55
  seems like you're questioning yourself about, did I make the
• 3:58
  right decisions? Did I do all of what I was
• 4:01
  supposed to do? I should be somewhere else at
• 4:04
  this point in my life. If you start that, you often
• 4:07
  have to look back and say, OK, am I in a perfectionism frame
• 4:12
  that says this is how it should have been done?
• 4:14
  Because our certainty girls get triggered.
• 4:17
  Even Raven agrees with that one. Our certainty girls get
• 4:19
  triggered and all of a sudden you're working in a way that's
• 4:23
  robbing you of creativity, robbing you of possibility,
• 4:26
  robbing you of everything, and it's perfectionism kicking in.
• 4:31
  This is how it should not be and and you start to see like, well,
• 4:35
  if it was in a perfect world, when you start those sentence is
• 4:39
  off. That way you know what's driving
• 4:41
  you know what's happening. So I'm going to challenge you to
• 4:44
  really identify that piece of it.
• 4:46
  Look at it. How much is your perfectionism
• 4:50
  stealing your creativity from allowing you to be able to make
• 4:53
  whatever it is that you want to make out in the world?
• 4:56
  Nothing is more important, my friends.
• 4:58
  Not one thing is more important than dwelling in creativity.
• 5:02
  It is the IT is a it is a superpower.
• 5:05
  It is a resource that you cannot do without and should not do
• 5:08
  without. And the more you hunker down in
• 5:11
  this place of not understanding that, the more likely you are to
• 5:17
  suffer from it because it's everywhere.
• 5:20
  It's all around us. So go take a look at it and put
• 5:23
  it in a box because not the best tool to be using.
• 5:28
  OK, everybody, have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
• 5:32
  Bye.