How Not to Be Perfect

14 lessons in being bad at things

Noran Azmy
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Published in
5 min readFeb 19, 2022

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Although I hate to admit it, I, like many others, used to use perfectionism as something like a humble brag. By claiming I was a perfectionist, I was pretending to say “it takes me ages to finish stuff because I need everything to be perfect”, when really what I meant was “everything I do is perfect”.

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Noran Azmy
ILLUMINATION

A software engineer who enjoys writing on a variety of topics, including personal development, productivity, learning, books, politics, and social issues.