Perfectionism is easy to see on someone. Physically it is a rigidity in the musculature and there can be stunted tones in the voice. Mentally they are often second-guessing themselves, hesitant, and overly precise.
Joe Hudsonx.comPerfectionism is easy to see on someone. Physically it is a rigidity in the musculature and there can be stunted tones in the voice. Mentally they are often second-guessing themselves, hesitant, and overly precise.
when someone says "you take yourself too seriously" or "I take myself too seriously", what do you think they're gesturing at?
a kind of tension and gripping? a sense of self-importance? a sense of perfectionism? caring what others think?
it seems there any many meanings
Michael Ashcroftx.comthe Inner Critic looks and finds the imperfections—the awkward silence in conversation, the answer that didn’t come out quite right, the time someone laughed at the wrong point of our story—and strings them together into a Möbius strip of lowlights. And it’s this focus on the lowlights that keeps social anxiety going strong over years and decades,
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The musts and shoulds are heavily tied up with perfectionism.