Because when our expectations for everything being perfect don’t match up with reality (and honestly — do they ever match up?
Quick question. What would happen if in some Star Trek/Dr. Who plot come true, we all, as a civilization, woke up one morning and the neural circuits of perfectionism — the ones that have us tearing our hair out every time things don’t turn out precisely to the “t” how we pictured — vanished without a trace, peacefully, in our sleep? Yes I know, nit-pickers, with the different time zones there is not just one universal “morning” and we’d all wake up at different times, and it would be more of a staggered start to this living-without-perfectionism thing, but hey, you’re missing the point.
If we re-routed our unrelenting pursuit of an air-brushed existence from which no one wins and everyone suffers, would civilization as we know it come to a screeching halt? Or, would we, in fact, freed from the shackles of perfection-paralysis, benefit from a wider view of possibilities on how to make things. better?
Or depressed
Wait — make things better? Isn’t the perfectionist the very person for the job of improving things? Isn’t that what perfectionism is all about? Lees verder