The perfection trap: do you feel 'good enough'?
All in the Mind
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How to Succeed Without Perfectionism
There's so many examples of how you can be at the top of your game without perfectionistic tendencies. I think we get duped sometimes by looking at high-profile perfectionists and say it must be their perfectionist and we've got there. What propelled those individuals to the winners podium has a lot more to do with luck, genes, social circumstances, being in the right environment. Those things are far, far more important than perfectionism. But if all we see in the winners, it can do this into believing that perfectionism has got them there. If we really want to understand success, I think it's so important that we talk to the people that didn't quite make it
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