# Toxic Attitudes about Greatness **URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/toxic-attitudes-about-greatness/2067 **Category:** Elliot Temple **Tags:** bot, curiosity-blog **Created:** [May 20, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/toxic-attitudes-about-greatness/2067 "2025-05-20T17:59:48Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 26
### Author: ![ActiveMind](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/activemind/32/5560_2.png) [@ActiveMind](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/ActiveMind) #### Post date: [June 17, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/toxic-attitudes-about-greatness/2067/26 "2025-06-17T12:19:06Z")
> [@Elliot](#): > > But then why don’t you binge it more like some other things you like, or not put in enough time and effort, in your opinion, overall? I can binge read your stuff. But I don’t binge posting, doing projects or practicing. Which I think is due to: 1. Takes more effort 2. I’m less sure about what to do. Just reading is straightforward 3. Probably some preoccupation with posting only high quality posts and not appearing dumb I’ve gotten way better at 3, but I’m not perfect at it either. I think it isn’t my bottleneck, but it could be. 2 applies a lot to projects. I feel that my projects aren’t proper. I think projects ought to be more like “learn skill X and verify by getting it right 99% of the time”, but my projects are more like “go through the material”. I feel like I don’t know what goals to set, what success criteria to set and what plan to make. And so I don’t really want to start planning a project because I’m not sure what to do and the project planning I usually do doesn’t seem good enough. Although the end result of the projects seem good. Also I could’ve read more if I didn’t: > [@What Kind of World Do We Live In?](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/what-kind-of-world-do-we-live-in/1714/144): > > think I have to do heavy analysis the first time I read important philosophy stuff. By “heavy analysis” I meant a thorough analysis. Like I can’t just pick out parts of an article and focus on that, I have to analyze pretty much everything. I think that’s a bad perfectionist attitude. --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/toxic-attitudes-about-greatness/2067)._