What Is Perfectionism?

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Letting go of your expectations of perfection won't mean that you will stop having successes.

Perfectionism may have helped you gain achievements; you have likely also lost things along the way.

Notice if your perfectionistic expectations have impacted your expectations of others.

Are others allowed to make mistakes? Oftentimes the answer will be, “It depends.” We tend to consider the person’s intent, what they “should” have known, whether they apologized, how sincere the apology seemed, and its impact on others.

Our chronically online world, where everyone seems to be sharing a lot of personal information about themselves all of the time, has highlighted the reality that people constantly make mistakes. Some of this is unintentional, and sometimes it is very much intentional (i.e., rage-baiting so you will get angry and engage with their content). Nevertheless, this has an impact on a question of critical importance...

Are you allowed to make........

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