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I think the author kind of has it backward. Most people I know (specifically younger people that I work with) that struggle with perfectionism are afraid to fail enough to master something. They end up king of the bunny slope because they don’t want to do something imperfectly, so they stick to the easy stuff and eventually give up. Like being really really good at something requires, like the author said, that you continue to do things at the outer limits of your abilities, and if you’re doing that you’re going to spend the majority of your time performing below the standard you set as perfection. If you have a healthy relationship with failure and imperfection, that drives you forward, and if not it stops you from progressing.