5 highlights
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I recently read a quote by Brene Brown from her book The Gifts of Imperfection and it hit hard.
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“Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be your best. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfect, look perfect, and act perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgement, and shame. It’s a shield. It’s a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it’s the thing that’s really preventing us from flight.”
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While most of the ideas that strike us feel amazing, a lot of the confidence and steam is lost in the journey from idea to implementation.
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To be human is to be imperfect, so I often wonder how this need to achieve impossible perfection has set into us.
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To be creative, joyful and satisfied, one needs to get comfortable with failure or less than perfect attempts, what we retrospectively and wrongly label as ‘mistakes’.