Hey, this is Overpass Insights! My name is Eric and I make apps! Now today, I want to talk
once again about criticism from perfectionists.
Alright, so it is a nice morning here in England, right? Yesterday, we had pouring rain
and tonight it's actually kind of brisk, kind of a little bit on the chilly side. I mean,
we're nearly at the end of October, but I have to tell you these early or sorry these short days
are starting to get to me a little bit. Like I think I've kind of been in a bit of
a funk lately. You know, I hate to admit it, you know, I try to be positive and everything, but
I've been in a bit of a funk lately. I think it's the pandemic that is going on for ages! You know,
lots of different stuff and sometimes it could just get to you you that season but sad season
effective disorder or whatever dude that's that's no bs that's true and so anyway apologies for the
lack of videos uh lately so today i want to talk about something that i know that i've talked about
several times before which is perfection right um i've been thinking about it a lot lately
so throughout the course of my life i've heard many statements like dude your videos suck
your app sucks your job sucks your writing sucks whatever you know depending on on who it
is what they're talking about i hear lots of these different kinds of things and sometimes sometimes
i brush it off sometimes i just shrug it off and sometimes i let it get to me depending on my state
of mind right and it's it can be very difficult but most of the time when you get statements like
this i'm not most of the time yeah the majority of the time you get statements like this it's
from someone who doesn't do something like perfectionists like and the reason when it does
get to me it's not because i think oh that guy's a jerk and i'm just gonna you know be you know
whatever weak willed and thin skin no it gets to me sometimes i'm thinking you know what that video
could have been better or that app could have been better or maybe i should have spent an extra
week on it or butts on it or whatever but ultimately did it right i had to put it out there
there was a um it was a quote i remember hearing i think it might have been les brown whereas like
if you really want to do something you have to have the courage to do it badly right you have to
put something out there and it can be difficult especially we got the criticism of others
the courage is that you're going to be criticized for something that you
know you probably could have done a little bit better but you also know that in my in my case
especially if i put things off like if i wait until the app is perfect if i wait until the video
is like a work of art rather than just say i need to get it out today it'll never get done
right if you read any books by writers and i know i've read a lot of books by writers
and they talk about the perfectionists who sit there trying to get their first sentence
perfect and then the next sentence perfect and in the end they never do anything they're talkers
they're not doers whereas an actual writer will have a deadline and say i'm going to put something
down on paper and then i'm going to edit it and i'm going to edit it and i'm going to edit it
and um and that's kind of what we have to do too
a lot of the times when i get this kind of criticism it's from people who
who don't do it themselves but they're going to do it one day in fact i can remember i was talking
with somebody he was a business owner right and he was like he wanted to do videos i was like
oh you should you should do it he said yeah but i don't want to do it like you i wanted to be more
like i want to be more like like an influencer and and i want the quality to be higher he was
telling me all these things he was going to do better than me and that was two or three years ago
never did a thing right it was all talk it was all you know yeah
i said this before but and i'll say it again you have to put the reps in right you can't you don't
you don't get good at something the first time you do it i mean i wish that was the case i'm sure
everybody's ever paid their dues wishes that their first try was the best one but i think
my first few apps you know god i just i cringe in embarrassment what by some of the code of it
i think about my first software projects i cringe in embarrassment oh i look at the first videos on
this channel i cringe in embarrassment for how bad they are but you put the reps in you do what you
got to do you know i could put out one video which is perfect like i spent my life working on this
or i could just you know do like i'm doing now just go out for a walk and chat with you guys
for those of you guys who are on the fence about putting your app out there you've been thinking
about it too long or you're waiting for it to be perfect you need to put something out
there because you could always change it you could always fix it you know you could always turn those
bad reviews into good reviews but the hard part for anything that is creative is putting yourself
out there and for the last few weeks again i have to say with a with quite a bit of embarrassment
i've been letting them i've been letting that voice i've been letting the criticisms get to me
But, you know, it's always a fight, isn't it? Just some of my thoughts for today right those you guys
those of you guys who have done something or put something out there that you wanted
to do that you put an app on the app store right and you deal with the criticism of
people telling you how much better it could be even though they haven't done it on their own
you should be proud of yourself right because you because you've done it and so many people
are just talkers. Anyway, I hope you, guys, have a great day. I hope you have a great week!
Stay healthy, stay safe and I'll talk to you again!