In this episode of Minds & Mics, Nick chats with author Oliver Burkeman about the imperfectionist mindset and how this counterintuitive idea can help with a variety of struggles from perfectionism and indecisiveness to procrastination and imposter syndrome.
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EPISODE TOPICS
- The Problem with Self-Improvement
- Function Follows Form
- What Is Imperfectionism?
- The Oliver Burkeman Thesis Statement
- Synthesizing the Achiever and the Enjoyer
- Oliver’s 4-Hour Workday Experiment
- The Virtues of Deliberate Constraint
- The Psychology of Indecisiveness and Overwhelm
- Daily-ish as the Antidote to Perfectionism
- Scruffy Hospitality as the Antidote to Imposter Syndrome
