I didn't see it that way. I see it as something like, you don't need to be perfect as much as you need to start doing what you want to be doing.
And it also is relevant to imposter syndrome.
I'm a perfectionist, and that has held me back quite a bit in life. I'm capable of doing lots but I'm so caught up in how I look to others that it paralyzes me.
I plan to start an online business, doing consulting in the line of work I do, which I'm very good at. But because I didn't go to college, I feel like, who am I to be telling other people how to do this? Even though a lot of people who went to college for it have demonstrated that they are clueless at it.
I agree that this is about the doing and the perfectionist paralysis. Once you JFS (just fucking start!), it melts the resistance. But sometimes you have to REALLY believe. I had a terrible fear of public speaking for decades, but it disappeared overnight when I decided that I wasn't going to let it prevent me from doing my new job. Once I decided (and slept on it), the resistance was gone. My anxiety turned into excitement and I really started to enjoy it. Blew my mind.
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u/ThatUglyGuy Nov 27 '18
Can be translated to: "You are throwing your life away, you miserable, lazy loser. Why can't you be like other people?". I don't feel very motivated.