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Perfectionism: A Hurdle To Our Artistic Growth?

When we speak about perfectionism, there are two narratives in front of us. The first one is positive perfectionism, and the second one is negative perfectionism. Both of these aspects can have a direct impact on you. When you consider the positive side, it is helpful for your personal growth. However, if you look at the negative aspect, you will find that it is a major obstruction to your creative growth. Through this guide, we will discuss how perfectionism impacts your life.


Impact Of Perfectionism On Your Creative Thinking


The core struggle you deal with due to perfectionism involves a 'fear factor'. The fear factor could be of any form, such as fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of identity loss, fear of getting judged, and so on. These fears can be crippling as these have a lasting impact on your creative aspects. 


While dealing with perfectionism, you may find yourself helpless to undertake any task. And you all must know that you cannot be creative until you struggle with self-doubt, and fear of failure.


Here are some signs that depict how perfectionism impacts your personal growth:


  1. Ideal Circumstances: You want more before you start, such as more study space, more resources, perfect idea to start, more practice, and so on. Your aspiration to start in an ideal condition leads you to procrastinate the starting. As a result of which, you might fail to start anything afresh. In such a condition, you must understand that there is no perfect starting point as the present moment. If you start at the present, you can surely create something at the end of the journey. Whereas, if you spend time looking for a perfect starting, you may end up struggling to start anything in the first place. 


For example - If you wish to learn meditation, counselors who conduct Spiritual Counseling Online sessions also suggest that one needs to at least start for becoming a master of the skill. 


2. The Unfinished Feeling: When you are stuck with perfectionism, you might always feel like things are yet to be incorporated into your artwork. Due to this reason, you may spend a lot of time making things look perfect. Well, such habits, rather than making things look perfect, ruin the ideal things. 


As a possible therapy for perfectionism, you need to drop your ‘perfectionist’ habit and accept your position. In the starting, this thing may seem hard to digest, but with time, you can succeed in making things work for you.


3. Creative Block: When you struggle with perfectionism, you tend to create a blockage in your creative mind. Due to this, you might find it difficult to accomplish anything creatively and outstandingly. Also, the obstruction impacts your performance because you lag behind in your task.  


To overcome this struggle, you need to limit your expectations and instead feel calm and relaxed whenever you have to create a masterpiece. With a sound and relaxed mindset, you can work better.


  1. Many Ideas Less Focus: There are instances where you might struggle dealing with many ideas. For example, while creating a drawing, you have so many ideas to start with. Well, having multiple options is good, but it opens up numerous challenges for you as you may find it difficult to focus on any single idea. 


Well, this thing also has a positive aspect as you can start from any point and can easily add up points from other ideas to bring modification to the original one. All such ideas can ultimately lead to a masterpiece. 


Final Words


As we discussed at the beginning of the post, perfectionism tendency has two facets. It all depends on your perspective with which you inhibit perfectionism in your attitude. If you allow perfectionist thoughts to decide all walks of your lives, you will only end up struggling with the issue. In contrast, if you proceed with perfectionism's positive aspect, you can significantly contribute to your personal growth. This is why you need to follow a balanced approach in your life.


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