"Why Trying to Be Perfect Won’t Help You Achieve Your Goals"
On the first day of class, Jerry Uelsmann, a professor at the University of Florida, divided his film photography students into two groups ...
If you're a perfectionist person, you have to read this thread: 🧵👇
Everyone on the left side of the classroom, he explained, would be in the “quantity” group.
They would be graded solely on the amount of work they produced.
On the final day of class, he would tally the number of photos submitted by each student.
One hundred photos would rate an A, ninety photos a B, eighty photos a C, and so on.
"How training my brain to focus helped me to build two profitable businesses" 🧠🎯
(Read this thread if you're struggling with your monkey mind.)
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Back in 2016, I couldn’t even sit still on my chair for a few minutes, never mind keeping my attention long enough to get my monkey mind to focus on a single task. 🐒
Between bottomless Instagram scrolling and trying to do at least some work here and there, I was spending my entire day staring at a screen.
Yet when I got home in the evening, I felt exhausted and nervous.
And guilty.
Guilty of not having achieved anything.