The Imperfectionist: Be a disappointment
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The Imperfectionist: Be a disappointment
Perfectionists are intelligent people who understand that everything can’t work out perfectly all the time. What they sometimes have trouble with is understanding why they still feel so disappointed by imperfection in the face of that intellectual concession. What they sometimes wonder about is why they feel so compelled to endlessly strive. What t
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Present Perfect: A Mindfulness Approach to Letting Go of Perfectionism and the Need for Control
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Deciding whether or not to be pleased or disappointed by something you’ve done, or failed to do, is an archetypal case of someone else’s task. It’s never your job to spare someone the experience of disappointment, provided that the action that triggers it is, in other ways, the right one to take.
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The Imperfectionist: Act fast
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the essence of intentional imperfection is accepting your limitations: you cannot expect to simultaneously excel at every target you set for yourself. To put this in the language of Sesame Street, it’s the equivalent of the line, “You’ve got to put down the ducky if you want to play the saxophone.”