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Crowd Favorite: Fighting Perfectionism and Remembering People’s Names

A Thing or Two with Claire and Erica

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The Problem With Perfectionism

Perfectionism is just a key part of this whole capitalist structure that says like, we have to be working. And it can be and because that has become such a big part of our lives, it can be really hard to feel like, Oh, I'm going to just work on this craft project that I'm not going to put in the newsletter. It doesn't meet my aesthetic standards. The problem is not your life; the problem is your plans. If 2020 has taught us anything, it's how swiftly our well intentioned goals and plans can be tossed out the window. Perfect plans don't exist. Goals are meant to be flexible. Life happens in learning to become adaptable

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