I’m gonna write about the last paragraph if the article:
The self-help book How to Be an Imperfectionist has a section titled “The Binary Mindset”. While trying to help perfectionists, Stephen Guise independently came up with some ideas similar to CF’s binary evaluation of success or failure. Guise points out that, if you evaluate on binary scale of 1 or 0 with no other values possible (including no fractions or decimals), then perfection becomes achievable. You can actually get a perfect score (1) and often will, so this can satisfy perfectionists. Binary evaluation of success or failure means perfectionists don’t have to keep optimizing non-bottlenecks trying to get slightly higher scores that never reach perfection.
The first sentence:
The self-help book How to Be an Imperfectionist has a section titled “The Binary Mindset”.
I like the title of the book. It sounds like you’re trying to do the opposite of what perfectionism is. Also, it sounds good that it’s a self-help book. It might be useful later.
The name of the section sounds like it refers to binary goals. I forget what they’re about but it’s like you can use them to tell if a result is a success or failure. If you got clear and specific goals then I think it’ll be easy to tell if something fails at it or not. I dont remember.
Also, the word binary sounds like u gotta keep track of just 2 things instead of 100 hundred things. Like, you dont gotta keep improving and improving things that are unnecessary.