there are 1000 people who never tried there 1000…
Page 188 there are 1000 people who never tried there 1000 people that didn’t do what they thought they were good enough to even try. Unfortunately, that’s the worst thing that perfectionism does it stops you from trying.
— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · Finish Give Yourself the Gift of Done by Jon Acuff
In the book
The second danger is perfectionism, which wears a noble disguise. It whispers that you cannot move forward toward your goal until you have first done some other thing, or that succeeding might somehow make you a bad person — and the worst thing it does is the simplest: it stops you from even trying. There are a thousand people who never attempted the thing they might have been great at, because they did not believe they were good enough to begin. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)