What straight a students get wrong

What straight a students get wrong. Perfection takes expectations to a new level. It’s one thing to care about attaining success and avoiding failure, but perfectionism takes expectations to a different level. Perfectionism is the desire to be impeccable. The goal is zero defect no fault. No flaws no failures. New paragraph page 67. Once you leave the predictable controllable cocoon of academic exams the desire to find the correct answer can backfire. Perfectionist tend to get obsessed about details that don’t , avoid unfamiliar situations and difficult tasks that might lead to failure and berate themselves for making mistakes, which makes it harder to learn.

— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)

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