# Perfectionism Perfectionism? Ditch perfectionism.[[Declutter your life and ditch perfectionism.|º]] Declutter your life, remove it, jettison such psychological baggage as perfectionism.[[Jettison psychological baggage such as perfectionism.|º]] No. The goal is progress, not perfection.[[The goal is progress over perfection.|º]] Perfection is unattainable, unreachable, and unhelpful. Perfectionism gets in the way of acting in line with a *scout mindset*.[[Scout mindset (summary)|º]] When we equate making mistakes with being somehow unworthy, lesser or bad, it is more difficult to admit error, update our thinking, and, where this would be appropriate, to apologise for being wrong.[[When we equate mistakes with being unworthy, lesser or bad, it is more difficult to admit error and apologise for being wrong.|º]] As Elizabeth Kübler-Ross[[Elizabeth Kübler-Ross|º]] has put it: “I’m not okay, you’re not okay, and that’s okay.”[[“I’m not okay, you’re not okay, and that’s okay.”|º]] %% # Reference ```dataview LIST FROM [[]] OR #perfectionism AND !outgoing([[]]) AND -"Templates" WHERE file.name != this.file.name SORT file.name ASC ``` # Archive - %%