Latour: Entrepreneurial perfectionism is driven by underlying shame and childhood trauma
Renee Latour · Why Done Is Better Than Perfect Has Nothing to Do With Productivity · Dec 17, 2022 · at 15:57
Operations coach Renee Latour explains the psychological root causes behind perfectionism and operational paralysis in entrepreneurs to host Sean Weisbrot.
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“And when we talk about perfectionism, that's usually what it looks like on the surface is perfectionism and what usually makes people very unproductive. And taking too long to do something and making sure that they cross every T and dot every I before something goes out of the door, you know, and just, and not really being very agile, you know, in their business, because they're just trying so hard to make sure that it is creme de la creme. And underneath that is shame. And underneath that is a lot of childhood traumas. And it's really a lot to be unpacked.”
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