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Oliver Burkeman - The JOY of Missing Out

The Imperfects

CHAPTER

The Joy of Missing Out

I think that like perfectionism very broadly considered and defined is like total sort of has been a sort of total governing force. And I just think that whole idea that speak to the theme of imperfection and perfection, I've come to understand in my own life. We talk a lot about like needing to confront the possibility of failure, but it's actually for me, it's always like seeing that by those standards, you have already failed. That's the liberating thing.

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