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369: World leading expert on perfectionism, Thomas Curran — The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough

The Strategy Skills Podcast: Strategy | Leadership | Critical Thinking | Problem-Solving

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The Importance of Rejection in Business

When I was younger I was a very good football player soccer player for people listening in the US and I was through the academy system to a very high level but unfortunately I hit my sort of early to mid teens and I stopped maturing. Then when I got cut from the academies because I wasn't a strong wasn't a fast I wasn't as agile as the other kids that was in, it's really hard to see that as anything other than your own fault. It made me realize something really really important about life in general there was nothing I could have done to stop that happening. We can know that the journey is not going to be linear and that there are going to be setbacks

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