The Surprising Mindset Shift That Transformed My Chase for Perfection into Real Progress
And more importantly, it doesn’t actually make you better. It just makes you scared.
It wasn’t until I was in my late twenties, nursing yet another injury from overtraining, that I realized something had to change.
I was so focused on doing everything perfectly that I’d stopped doing much of anything at all. I was paralyzed by the fear of messing up.
And that’s when a single shift in how I thought about progress changed everything for me.
The trap of all-or-nothing thinking
When you’re wired for perfection, you develop this binary view of success. Either you nail it completely, or you’ve failed. There’s no middle ground.
