It’s extremely painful to have a perfectionist mindset. It’s a way to control the world around you. What helps me is to compare myself to what I was yesterday. Because the problem is that we try to compare ourselves with someone who’s maybe spent hours mastering a skill that we just started with.
Or comparing yourself with your ideal version of yourself. There is a very good book actually by Ellen Hendrickson that’s called How to Be Enough. She’s a psychologist who exactly work on these topics and perfectionism, basically. I definitely recommend it. It’s one of the best books I’ve seen. around so far on these, on these topics
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