Отрывок из книги How Women Rise. Sally Helgesen про типичные ошибки женщин в карьере. Одна из них — перфекционизм. Мужчины этим страдают меньше.
«Striving to be perfect may have helped get you where you are, but it will get in your way as you aspire to higher levels. There are many reasons this is so.
• Striving to be perfect creates stress, for you and for those around you, because it’s based on expectations that human beings may occasionally live up to but which cannot be sustained over time.
• Striving to be perfect keeps you riveted on details, distracting you from the big-picture orientation that’s expected when you reach a senior position.
• Striving to be perfect creates a negative mind-set in which you’re bothered by every little thing that goes wrong, since even a small mistake can “ruin” the whole. And negativity is never valued in a leader.
• Striving to be perfect sets you up for disappointment for the simple reason that it’s unrealistic. You, and the people who work with and for you, will never be perfect—at least as long as you live on planet earth.»
«Striving to be perfect may have helped get you where you are, but it will get in your way as you aspire to higher levels. There are many reasons this is so.
• Striving to be perfect creates stress, for you and for those around you, because it’s based on expectations that human beings may occasionally live up to but which cannot be sustained over time.
• Striving to be perfect keeps you riveted on details, distracting you from the big-picture orientation that’s expected when you reach a senior position.
• Striving to be perfect creates a negative mind-set in which you’re bothered by every little thing that goes wrong, since even a small mistake can “ruin” the whole. And negativity is never valued in a leader.
• Striving to be perfect sets you up for disappointment for the simple reason that it’s unrealistic. You, and the people who work with and for you, will never be perfect—at least as long as you live on planet earth.»