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Bring Your “B Game” · The Daily Writer

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider Podcast, where we bring you tips and inspiration each day to help you build habits for writing success.
• 0:14
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• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: Do you struggle with being a perfectionist?
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  SPEAKER_00: If so, let's talk about a strategy that can help you overcome it really fast.
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  SPEAKER_00: But first, let's address the question: what is perfectionism anyway?
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  SPEAKER_00: Perfectionism is the tendency to get paralyzed by the idea that your work is never good enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: Perfectionists imagine there's a standard out there and they can never ever reach it.
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  SPEAKER_00: They've convinced themselves that they'll be an utter failure unless they reach that unreachable standard.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore, they never take action and instead live in a perpetual state of frustration.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now for the strategy on how to deal with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you think of yourself as a perfectionist, you're always shooting for A-level work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the problem is that your definition of an A is so far above everybody else's that it's unreachable.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: And I think the key is to actually downgrade your standards a bit so that you're shooting for B level work, maybe a B plus at best.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now you might think of this as lowering your standards, but remember that your standards are so unrealistically elevated that your B is everybody else's A.
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  SPEAKER_00: So make it your goal to do B level writing, at least on the first draft.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most of us don't have the capacity to be objective about our work anyway, so you have to trust that your B can truly become an A in everybody else's eyes.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: And when you shoot for a B, you can get work done much more quickly, move on, and still be considered excellent in everybody else's eyes.
• 1:51
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• 1:59
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening, and I'll see you tomorrow.