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When creative collaborators enable each other's perfectionism

Three of us started a creative project together a year ago and we're all perfectionists which means we critique everything to death and never actually finish anything — we've become a support group for our own creative paralysis.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Shared high standards have calcified into a collective inability to complete or release creative work.

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