Breaking Up with Perfectionism | WorkLife with Adam Grant
Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi
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How to Make Your Best Ever Dive Real
Psychologists find that one of the liabilities of perfectionism is being obsessed with maintaining your image. When i publish a book, i don't look at how many books other authors have sold. I track whether my latest one outsold my prior ones. The person you're competing against is your past self and the bar you're raising is for your future self. A perfectionist is always going to think that everything that they do is worse than what it is.
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