When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.
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When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!
Interpretation
Perfectionism leads to negative emotions like shame and fear.
This quote by BrenΓ© Brown illustrates how the pursuit of perfection can create a detrimental emotional environment. When we allow perfectionism to lead our actions, we inadvertently invite shame and fear into our lives, making them constant companions, ultimately hindering our growth and authenticity.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles, you might say this quote to emphasize the emotional costs of striving for perfection.
When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.
Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from taking flight.
Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.
What we know matters but who we are matters more.
Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise,_x000D_ _x000D_ He who defers this work from day to day,_x000D_ _x000D_ Does on a river's bank expecting stay,_x000D_ _x000D_ Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone,_x000D_ _x000D_ That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
That which hurts, also instructs.
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.
Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability.
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