Tamara Gray – Perfect is the Enemy of Good Anse

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The speaker discusses how women have been affected by imposter syndrome, as they do not meet the standards of good and perfect, causing them to miss opportunities for creativity and creativity is a key part of achieving perfection. The speaker suggests that women may miss opportunities for creativity when seeking perfection, as they may not meet the standards of good and perfect.

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			Today, I was talking with someone
about imposter syndrome and how
		
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			often times, especially women. And
you know, in the end, my
		
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			experiences are mostly with women,
but especially women, have
		
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			imposter syndrome. And what
imposter syndrome is is that even
		
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			though you are qualified, and if
you check the facts, you'll find
		
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			that you have the skills you need
to do the thing that is in front
		
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			of you to do, even if you do it
and do it well, you feel like
		
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			you're an imposter, that you
someone's going to find out that
		
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			you're not perfect
		
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			and here, and that is it. That's a
dangerous and difficult way to
		
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			feel, because, first of all,
nobody is perfect. And there's a
		
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			expression we like to say over
here, rabata,
		
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			which is perfect is the enemy of
good.
		
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			Perfect is the enemy of good. What
does that mean? Means, as long as
		
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			you're striving for something to
be perfect, you're going to end
		
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			you may end up with some really
serious issues that make it not
		
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			good. For example, it could be
late. Maybe you're working on a
		
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			project and you refuse to hand it
in or get it done because we want
		
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			you want it to be perfect. Oh, now
it's late. When something is late,
		
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			it loses of its good. Maybe you
want it to be perfect and so you
		
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			won't talk about with anybody
else, and now you've missed out on
		
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			an opportunity for other people's
creativity. You missed out on good
		
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			when we're seeking perfection, we
we miss out on good sometimes
		
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			because we are so stuck in our own
vision of perfection, we forgot
		
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			that there was a use for the
project and it just needed to get
		
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			done.