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Dr Emily - Curb Your Perfectionism

The Imperfects

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The Cost of Effort

I've always told myself that the kind of the lazy perfection thing in my mind is that the fear of failure is so much that it's best not to try. And we seem to really reward the idea in the culture of work and success that the only way you get good at something is by putting in the 10,000 hours in this obsessive thing. How do you achieve a high level of success and skill at a certain task without having an unhealthy attitude towards it?

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