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Public Speaking Practice: Excellence vs Perfection

Published Jun 15, 2026 Transcribed Jul 14, 2026 A Ali Abdaal
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Excellence vs Perfection: The Big Debate

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Directly addresses a common struggle for creators and productivity enthusiasts, sparking curiosity and relatability.

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My Secret to Avoiding Perfectionism

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Offers a counterintuitive actionable tip (start with mediocrity) that challenges conventional wisdom and is highly shareable.

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All right, we're doing some public speaking practice. It's going to give me a topic and then we're going to speak about it for a minute. Let's see what happens. So, I think if I press this the topic is excellence versus perfection. Okay, start timer 1 minute. Excellence versus perfection. This is one of those constant dichotomies that as a productivity enthusiast, you got to be like you got to you got to tow that line. Because on the

one hand, you want the stuff that you produce to be good. But on the other hand, you don't want it you don't want it to have to be so good that you get mired in this sort of perfectionism type stuff. And so, how do you find the balance between excellence versus perfection? What even is perfection? I have no idea. The way that I like to navigate this personally as, you know, someone who's been doing content on

the internet for like a decade and I've written a book and all that kind of stuff, is I think the key thing is to ask yourself the question what is like your own quality bar? Now, when you're just getting started out with something, you want your quality bar to not be excellent or perfection. You want it to be really low. You want your quality bar to be mediocrity. But as you get better at the thing, you

can increase the, you know, the the height of the quality bar. But you never want it to stop you from actually doing the thing.

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