Describe a piece of good advice you received

One piece of advice that has really stuck with me came from my final year university tutor, a softly spoken professor called Dr. Reyes. It was during a one to one meeting in her cramped little office, just weeks before I was about to submit my dissertation. I was in a right state, trying to perfect every single paragraph, and she must have noticed because she put down her pen and said, "Done is better than perfect, you can always refine things later, but you can't refine something that doesn't exist yet." At the time it sounded almost too simple to be useful, but it genuinely reframed how I approached deadlines from that point on. What made it so important was the timing and the way she said it, calmly, without any judgement, as if she'd learnt it the hard way herself. I'd always been a bit of a perfectionist, which sounds like a virtue but honestly it was crippling me, I'd spend hours tweaking a single sentence instead of moving forward. After that conversation, I finished the dissertation with two days to spare, and I've carried that mindset into my career too. Whenever I catch myself over polishing something trivial, I hear her voice in my head. It's a small phrase, but it fundamentally changed how I manage my time and my anxiety.