Writers' Cavern

IN DARIUS FOROUX'S book, Do It Today, there’s a chapter called “How perfectionism is destroying your productivity.” Reading that, I felt it’s a problem most of the budding writers face, including me. Let me share the content of the chapter with you. I hope it benefits you as well. He says, “If you are a perfectionist, you’re just a procrastinator with a mask.” When you constantly worry about getting things right, you are nurturing doubt in your mind. Doubt causes indecision, and indecision gives birth to procrastination. And perfectionism is not as innocent as you might think. Research specifically shows that perfectionism is closely related to depression and low self-esteem. And there are two types of perfectionists: i) The one that never starts (because of doubting themselves) and ii) The one that starts but has too high standards (they set their goals so high, work too hard, when they have burned themselves out they feel helpless, and feeling helpless force them to ...