Perfect is the enemy of good

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Sometimes Perfectionism stops us from acting completely. We fall into Binary Thinking, believing that something should either be done in the best possible way, or not at all. It can also be related to the shining new thing effect, which causes us to overestimate new things that promise us slightly better quality, but we don't measure the potential cost of switching to those things. The "perfect" perception of "if I could just have this exactly the way I want it" can cause us to Procrastination and ignore the good that we already have, or could be doing.

There's even something beautiful in imperfection wabi sabi, in showing that we worked hard to get somewhere, that it wasn't easy, that we faced obstacles and yet managed to get where we are kintsugi

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🔼Topic:: Wellbeing (MOC) ↩️Origin:: The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos 🔗Link:: https://share.snipd.com/episode/13ecaae4-406c-4d34-a086-cafb7cdad49d