what even is perfectionism??

boy, this single word sure does mean a lot of things to a lot of people, huh?

Until we’re treating ourselves with dignity when we are struggling, we’re not healing.

Heidi Priebe is in motion • Tweet

Dear Future Self,

I'm no longer trying to become you.

Not because I've given up,

But because I finally understand:

You emerge from how gently I hold this moment,

Not from how fiercely I chase the next one.

Su 🚀 • Tweet

perfectionism is a symptom of a culture that mistakenly believes that maximizing control (over self, others, natural resources, information, and the world at large) is the key to human flourishing.

Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight

Wanting to be enough for someone else is self-abandonment.

Joe Hudson • Tweet

I have known many people who spent years in analysis and emerged with a detailed understanding of their major psychodynamics, yet experienced what they uncovered as shameful admissions rather than as expressions of their essential humanity in all its ordinary depravity and virtue

eatnik x.com

Excellence emerges from intimacy with imperfection

Laura Cincera • Tweet

I can’t wait until I’m perfect and I can finally start living my life

natalie x.com

How many dreams are abandoned for fear of looking stupid in the eyes of those who never think about us at all

Heidi Priebe is in motion • Tweet

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Dylan O'Sullivan • Dylan O'Sullivan on Substack