Focus is the art of letting other people’s priorities experience your absence. - Kpaxs

The perfectionism paradox: protecting the work from criticism often protects it from existence.

By protecting yourself from the possibility of failing, you guarantee you never get to succeed either. You traded the whole upside to avoid one bad afternoon of feeling not-enough. That's a horrible trade.

How do you escape mediocrity? Stop optimizing for what’s normal. Start optimizing for what’s effective.