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123. Big Thinking on Big Feelings with Mollie West Duffy

At Work with The Ready

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You Don't Come on This Earth as a Perfectionist or a Control Freak

In the book, you actually quote writer and lamott saying, you didn't come onto this earth as a perfectionist or a control freak. So i'm speaking as somebody who likes to have a lot of control. I love anne la mott for that reason. She has another quote that's like, sometimes i just need toike, get my sticky fingers off of the steering wheel. Only that is how i feel lot ot the time. The other thing we talked with a therapist who said a lot of her mor type clients have this feeling that if they let go of their perfectionos tendencies, they will immediately get fired,. Like it's like this black and white thinking, like

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