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Because panic looks like productivity. The industry worships adrenaline junkies and chaos coordinators instead of rewarding people who prevent problems before they start. Slowing down is seen as laziness—even when it's just better work.
This is scary. This is me. Problem preventer and ability to slow down because I’m proactive.
It’s not just in Production. There are freelance creatives who operate like this too. They think dominating a meeting with a stream of bad ideas is better than being selective and getting it right. As a creative, I always prefer to present quality over quantity. Measure twice, cut once. It’s also much less boring for those who have to listen to the work. It’s a little different to what you’re describing but I feel like it comes from the same place of insecurity and overcompensating.
I wish I was given the option to slow down. More often than not a project comes to me to mix at the very last minute. The way post-production tends to work, it’s less about how good you are, and more about how fast you can make something that’s still good.
A few reasons account for this, in most occurrences.
1 -- It's a deadline business, and projects aren't always scheduled properly because the time-is-money factor encourages tight timelines over one that can be scrutinized as too generous or inefficient.
2 -- The objective is often creative, therefore subjective. Workloads go up or down based mostly on opinions and feelings. Progress is measured in satisfaction rather than in anything tangible.
3 -- Some people relish it, they award themselves gold stars, it's their form of validation. Some outgrow this, others never will.
It's hard to find creativity, organization, and discipline in the same package. There's evidence that this is somewhat neurological/evolutionary. Check out Big 5 Personality Test. Openness (aka Creativity) correlates with Neuroticism (sensitivity to stress) but relates inversely to Conscientiousness (follow through on tasks).