86. How to be Not Perfect: Kate Berardo [reads] ‘Bird by Bird’
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The Importance of Tidy-Diss in Writing
"Perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping stone just right, you won't have to die," writes Kate Chopra. "Tidy-diss suggests that something is as good as it's going to get," she says of her favorite book by Anne Elamah. 'I think that something similar happens with our psychic muscles': They cramp around our wounds, the pain from our childhood, the losses and disappointments of adulthood'
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