Hannah Boettcher on the mental health challenges that come with trying to have a big impact
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The Importance of Self Compassion
Another common issue among people trying to do as much good as they can in their careers is, yeah, it's perfectionism. The thing we call perfectionism is like when you lose track of like the threshold at which it becomes no longer helpful. And well, this is an example of like an amount of this is adaptive, and another amount is maladaptive. Okay. Well, I guess it'll be helpful for people to practice that kind of self talk themselves. But on behalf of 80,000 hours, for anyone struggling with this, yeah, thank you. It's can be really painful.
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