perfectionism is just a pretty way to say crippling fear of failure

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(Prediction: Substack would have more perfectionists than the average population. Will share results next week) The word “perfectionist” entered my life like an invisible nuke. A girl from America moved to my school in 8th grade, and she was a lot of things I wasn't - a foreign being. She was loud at an age that made her bold. She was friendly yet aggressive. But perhaps most alien to me, she had a worldview with razor-sharp definition. Nowadays I'm not sure that's a good thing. If you have such a well-defined worldview so young, you probably didn't come to it yourself 1. But back then I…

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