beware of the noble obstacle

beware of the noble obstacle. In the first kind of noble obstacle, perfectionism sneakily tells you that you cannot move forward towards your goal until you do X. The second kind, perfectionism tells you that reaching your goal could actually produce results that are bad or to make you a bad person.

— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · Finish Give Yourself the Gift of Done by Jon Acuff

In the book

The second danger is perfectionism, which wears a noble disguise. It whispers that you cannot move forward toward your goal until you have first done some other thing, or that succeeding might somehow make you a bad person — and the worst thing it does is the simplest: it stops you from even trying. There are a thousand people who never attempted the thing they might have been great at, because they did not believe they were good enough to begin. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)

Also belongs to

• The Air Traffic Controller (God)
• Goals, Action & Defining Success (Goal/Action/Success/Motivation)

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