The Surprising Mindset Shift That Transformed My Chase for Perfection into Real Progress
And that’s actually more valuable than any perfect performance.
This ties into something Ryan Holiday writes about in his work on Stoic philosophy: the obstacle is the way.
The imperfect attempts, the failures, the days when you barely scrape by, those aren’t deviations from the path.
They are the path. They’re where the real growth happens.
I’m not going to lie and say this shift was easy or that I’ve completely conquered my perfectionist tendencies. I haven’t.
There are still days when I catch myself spiraling because something didn’t go exactly as planned.
