#55: Inertia and your overthinking dick brain
The Academic Imperfectionist
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How to Break Through the All or Nothing Thinking
Doing this thing right is an intimidating prospect, so I'm avoiding doing it at all. It's better to leave things as they are than to do things wrong. This attitude can be responsible for people getting stuck in much more serious ruts too. Staying in a job or relationship that you know isn't right is a terrifying prospect. You don't have the energy. There will be trouble and headaches and chaos along the way. So isn't it better to stay where you are? Because although that's very far from perfect, and perhaps very far even from minimally satisfactory, it's at least familiar.Because uncertainty is terrifying, isn't it?
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