You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
It starts by forgetting about perfect. We don__ have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable: It__ a myth and a trap and a hamster wheel that will run you to death. The writer Rebecca Solnit puts it well: __o many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it__ also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun... The most evil trick about perfectionism, though, is that it disguises itself as a virtue.
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It starts by forgetting about perfect. We don__ have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable: It__ a myth and a trap and a hamster wheel that will run you to death. The writer Rebecca Solnit puts it well: __o many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it__ also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun... The most evil trick about perfectionism, though, is that it disguises itself as a virtue.
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