
756: Perfectionism: Solutions for all Five Types with Stephen Guise
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How to Stop Having Unrealistic Expectations
Expectations are a really interesting thing in life. I i like to say that we should have generally high expectations for our lives, be an optimist. But it can become very problematic when you have specific high expectations. In which case you like perfectionists. They have unrealistic expectations. And that that's why it's correlated with depression because they're always underneath what they expect and hope to be. That's depressing. The prescription there is o now stop having unrealistic expectations, maybe in practice. How does one do that? Yes. So we touched on the perfect goals. That's a big one. You've got five sub sets of perfectionism. Isit helpful to take that as
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