Posts Tagged ‘fear’

Like all of us, I often experienced some kind of fear during my life. And most of the time, it pushed me hard. It somehow made me grow. Maybe fear has been the most important driving force for me.

But sometimes I wanted to get rid of fear. Completely. The idea of being free of negative emotions made me curious. Being free of all those unnecessary emotions ordinary people do experience. Being somehow independent of my own fortune. I thought this might be the kind of perfection I was searching for. So I took some time to think about it.

At first I thought that it might work. I thought that the absence of worries and troubles might come naturally if you become wise.
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I am a perfectionist myself. And every once in a while, I wish I wasn’t.

But why is that? Why exactly? What are the disadvantages of being a perfectionist? Of trying to be perfect?

That’s what I want to answer in this article. (Of course, there are benefits as well but that’s just not what this article is about.)

Let’s just jump to the negative effects of perfectionism:
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