A reflection on perfectionism, impossible standards, self-pressure and the search for enoughness.
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All your solutions must be 10 or less.
- Scold yourself for the results of 9, 8, 7, 6 and especially for 3 and below.
- Undervalue your experience.
- Compare yourself with others.
- Wait for the evaluation and trust it as your own opinion.
- Take other people's values, because other people know better.
No one can be perfect, such people simply do not exist. Look around and at least look at your surroundings. Is there even one perfect person in it? Here is a straight ideal, without flaws, mistakes, who has never been afraid in his life, who has never been angry, who has never felt anxiety.
In the pursuit of perfection, we lose our integrity. We tear ourselves apart and try to remove what we don't like. Does it bring us closer to success? Unlikely.
Holistic people help themselves to get to the top, they do not torture themselves with ideas that you can act in movies only after receiving an Oscar, and to perform music talentedly, you have to be Matsuev.
They work hard and believe in themselves and their abilities.
Such people end up being successful in whatever they do.
You can use your strength, be flexible and move towards the goal in your own style!
And let someone else try to become perfect.
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