How Not to Be Perfect
14 lessons in being bad at things
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5 min readFeb 19, 2022
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”.