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Breaking Up with Perfectionism

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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How to Achieve Your Goals in Dive Diving

When you set goals for yourself, what you need to make sure that you understand is ex what do you need to do to achieve those goals? I love the strategy of just clarifying the goal, which then makes you realize perfect is not the target, right? It its not even necessary. In judging, we remind the judges over and over again that ten is not perfect. If you're in customer's service, it's not realistic to shoot for a hundred % satisfaction. You might for 90%. The goal is for them to reach a level of proficiency. And when i give a speech and the evaluations aren't perfect, i hear eric's voice in my head. Just go in

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