Perfectionists usually can't accept mistakes: it's better to be clumsy than to act rashly and make many mistakes.

As a perfectionist, I have very high demands on the results of my actions, and I try not to make mistakes.

To this end, I have been thinking and looking for the best way to ensure that things are reliable. Without a perfect plan and scheme, you will never do it indiscriminately.

To this end, I want to list the impact of various emergencies on the results. As long as I consider it as comprehensively as possible, I won't make mistakes! This will make you more confident in your actions.

At the same time, for things that are not fully grasped, they can only stay put for the time being. You should think it over before you start work. Otherwise, we will make many mistakes and waste resources such as time and energy in vain.

The end result is that I have been thinking, watching and learning, but I just can't act.

2. Quick trial-and-error thinking mode

"Quick trial and error" first frankly admits that mistakes are inevitable. No matter how hard you think and optimize your plan, no matter how careful you are, there will always be unexpected factors that will make you make mistakes, so there will be no perfect mistakes!

As long as you act, you will make mistakes. This is "imperfection is beauty."

Since mistakes are inevitable, we should try our best to reduce the losses caused by them.

Here we introduce the principle of "quick trial and error method":

Although there is no perfect grasp, we must act first.

Pay attention to action, find mistakes when the loss of resources (time, energy, money) is the least, and make improvements quickly.

3. Life case:

Facing all kinds of small circles, official WeChat accounts, lectures, online courses, etc. In the currency circle, I am always worried about missing high-quality content, so I always want to catch it all. So I collected a lot of articles, bought a lot of courses on official WeChat account, but I didn't know where to start because it was beyond my processing capacity, so I just put it aside.

Recently, I listened to the Golden Horse Award for Currency Circle "Quantitative Trading of Stars" and felt that the content was of high quality. I regret why I came to study so late.

But when I started to study what I had accumulated before with the idea that I couldn't miss anything valuable. It is also obvious that most of the content is actually of poor quality, but the perfectionist mentality always requires you to finish listening and learning, wasting a lot of time and energy but gaining little.

Now I understand that this kind of learning should adopt the principle of "quick trial and error": admit that the content you are facing is mixed, but you can't use this (perfectionism) as an excuse to escape, but actively screen the content and give up quickly and decisively once you find that the quality of the content is not high. Spend your limited time and energy on those selected high-quality content!