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Is Perfectionism Just Procrastination in Disguise? | Jon Youshaei | TED

What separates struggling artists from successful ones? Looking to creative geniuses like Mozart, Edison and Monet, video creator Jon Youshaei explains why aiming to be prolific — despite flops and failures along the way — is the key to unlocking your creative success. (Created in collaboration with ‪@ignite; recorded at TEDNext 2024 on October 22,…

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What separates struggling artists from successful ones? Looking to creative geniuses like Mozart, Edison and Monet, video creator Jon Youshaei explains why aiming to be prolific — despite flops and failures along the way — is the key to unlocking your creative success. (Created in collaboration with ‪@ignite; recorded at TEDNext 2024 on October 22, 2024)

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55 Comments

  1. @WarnerElliott

    February 7, 2025 at 7:55 am

    Why do today what you can do tomorrow?

  2. @jonr6680

    February 7, 2025 at 8:14 am

    Remember when TED was full of world class scientists, true breakthroughs & insights?

  3. @Taflenn

    February 7, 2025 at 8:18 am

    After seeing this video, I regret about the crushed, discarded & unfinished stories that I made over the past years…

  4. @Theoriginalanimalcracker

    February 7, 2025 at 8:18 am

    Try and tell Nikola Tesla that 🤦‍♂️

  5. @DominionAnako-bb7ry

    February 7, 2025 at 8:38 am

    When I’m trying to beat procrastination, I like to break tasks into smaller steps. It makes things feel more manageable.

  6. @bash-dl6rl

    February 7, 2025 at 8:52 am

    2,000?

  7. @GenesisSabar

    February 7, 2025 at 9:54 am

    Great video ❤

  8. @drumbum3.142

    February 7, 2025 at 9:55 am

    Interesting Topic.. ! 👍👊
    I’ve Sometimes actually Thought about this

  9. @greigsanderson

    February 7, 2025 at 9:58 am

    Procrastination isn’t doing, perfectionist IS doing, so completely different.

  10. @TheRealSandman

    February 7, 2025 at 10:16 am

    The thing I always tell myself is to always strive for perfection, but be content knowing you’ll never reach it

  11. @monidey1691

    February 7, 2025 at 10:40 am

    Who does like his height.?

  12. @youshaei

    February 7, 2025 at 11:17 am

    Giving a TED Talk was truly a dream come true 🙏 thanks for having me and for everyone here watching!!

  13. @user_user1337

    February 7, 2025 at 11:29 am

    And then there is Stanley Kubrick and Leonardo da Vinci: you cannot prescribe what artists ought to do; if Monet wants to destroy his own art: let him!, this has nothing to do with you.

    I am a perfectionist and I intend to stay one.

  14. @Funnyvideos-q7y

    February 7, 2025 at 11:32 am

    Anyone like minded?

  15. @AB-ld1rp

    February 7, 2025 at 12:10 pm

    Just don’t apply this to engineering, medical and automation

  16. @joeyoungs8426

    February 7, 2025 at 12:29 pm

    In my case it sometimes is and sometimes it’s the fear of moving forward. This is in reference to my guitar building hobby.

  17. @TurkeyAnne

    February 7, 2025 at 12:31 pm

    I love that he described James Corden as “the guy from Cats”

  18. @quochuyle1771

    February 7, 2025 at 12:47 pm

    Although I do know it’s not good at all, I have this same problem of ‘perfectionism’; clear examples are that I keep checking over and over my writings (emails, posts, etc.) for millennia before publishing and that I watch and edit any video a trillion times before hitting the export button – kind of a terribly annoying OCD symptom that I find it hard to weed out. This talk is a much-needed reminder for me to cure that OCD symptom of mine.

  19. @Hatsuzuki808

    February 7, 2025 at 12:47 pm

    You don’t have to call me out that directly.
    … or maybe you did. 😅

  20. @PhilosophyFreak1

    February 7, 2025 at 12:51 pm

    “Perfect is the enemy of Good” Voltaire said it right.

  21. @1st1anarkissed

    February 7, 2025 at 12:55 pm

    I realized in my 50s that nobody cares, actually. They are in their own heads. Perfection is wasted on good people and just a hook for narcissists. Those people love finding something to trigger you, and imperfection is great. Everyone has it.

  22. @destinaronin

    February 7, 2025 at 1:31 pm

    Big lie, tesla invented the bulb.

  23. @Alex-br6qt

    February 7, 2025 at 1:32 pm

    Individually it might be good advice for gaining some peace of mind, but at a societal level, people should actually do the opposite and become MORE perfectionist. Internet and libraries are becoming SATURATED by content from people believing any crap ideas they have deserve a book, an article or a youtube video. We don’t need yet another tiny variation on the same overly discussed topics and we absolutely do not need content full of empty catchphrases. I bet that progressively (especially with the raise of AI) the world is going to reward more and more high-value high-quality content, which often comes from people with a little bit of a perfectionist attitude. So if you’re perfectionist, embrace your difference, learn to love yourself and don’t listen to that guy.

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    Daniel Riccardo ❤

  48. @tahaeldeek6865

    February 8, 2025 at 9:10 am

    i love it

  49. @Bythirteen

    February 8, 2025 at 9:48 am

    When he said Monet slashed his work because it wasn’t good enough for Monet, my response was “good for him”.
    True artists create for themselves and it is their right to destroy their own work if they aren’t content with it. Putting a $3.4mill price tag on something inherently personal is perverse.

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  52. @SomayehAtefi-c7q

    February 9, 2025 at 8:47 am

    I’ve never forgotten this sentence you mentioned at the end of this video “The only thing worse than something perfect is something that doesn’t exist “

  53. @mansibidhuri8822

    February 9, 2025 at 10:30 am

    thanks for the advice i actually needed this

  54. @gooodmornin

    February 9, 2025 at 10:50 am

    no women genius included
    total no go
    repetition of the repetition🥱

  55. @humairakakar2821

    February 9, 2025 at 3:05 pm

    A human never can be perfect, the one who is perfect is the creator of human and universe

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