Thomas Curran

Embracing the Power of Good Enough

Perfection Trap

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This understanding is real, and alive, and all-consuming, and it’s penetrated us so deeply that perfectionism lives in our interiors via a lingering and unshakable insecurity. Insecurity about what we don’t have, how we don’t look, and what we haven’t achieved.

Perfectionists like me tend to deal with anxiety by overthinking. We suppose that covering every possible base is the most failsafe method of holding things together, forgetting that overthinking is itself a handicapping form of anxiety.

It's an exhausting way of going through life, needing to be perfect, correcting or concealing what's imperfect Paul told me. 'And that leaves absolutely no room for respite or compassionate self-reflection.

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