Boldness, authenticity, an endless drive you don’t even have to try to cultivate, the confidence to fail, learn, and grow as you saturate your life with more and more meaning and improve yourself and the world around you—that’s perfectionism. You can resist perfectionism or you can embrace it. When you stop resisting perfectionism, you’re practicing nonresistance. Engaging in nonresistance frees up energy. You are the person responsible for directing where your newly liberated energy goes next. If you direct your energy in curative and intentional ways, you can build a life that you want
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