And part of the problem is that saying "I am a perfectionist" feels a bit like a brag.
We would like to think it's like saying "I won't settle for anything less than giving my best".
But in reality ... perfectionism isn't about high standards. It's about fear - specifically, the fear that our performance will be judged by someone else as "not good enough".
There's a part of us that wants to believe we can achieve perfection if we just try hard enough. But that part of us is in battle with the much larger part of us that fears we are just not good enough.
And we're on the verge of being exposed as an imposter.
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