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Wanting The Perfect Plan Can Keep Us Stuck

Wanting The Perfect Plan Can Keep Us Stuck

When we apply machine-like expectations of ourselves, we run the risk of becoming paralysed by the need for perfection. I encountered a young person at that particularly challenging time in life when one must step out of schooling into the rest of one’s life. He was completely stuck because he expected to have a fully formed life plan that would guarantee success and tell him what the next step much be. And, as a result, he could not move forward because he had no plan! With hardly any life experience, having functioned in a fully structured, prescriptive, educational system for more than a...

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