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Perfectionism

If you suffer from perfectionism—“if it’s not perfect, I can’t hand it in!”—this piece in The Guardian might help:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/04/the-rise-of-perfectionism-and-the-harm-its-doing-us-all

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[Literary] criticism is not some inscrutable, mysterious process. It’s just a matter of: (1) noticing ourselves responding to a work of art, and (2) getting better at articulating that response.

—George Saunders, from A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, p. 60

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