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The quest for psychological perfection
“[T]hough I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted
Samuel Barondes • Making Sense of People: Detecting and Understanding Personality Differences
there is ego there, in holding onto this belief that you are even capable of creating something perfect and undoubted. you come full circle and realize that even your insecurity reveals a self-obsession.