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I found this article that really resonated with me. Perfectionism is the enemy of success and it's really hard on writers. We want to get everything right, but there's always a typo somewhere or a metaphor that could be stated in a more sensory fashion, or a scene that needs more show than tell. And it's stifling. Anyway, here it is:

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lttr.aiPerfectionism: 5 Reasons It's The Enemy of SuccessHave you ever noticed that perfectionists never seem to get anything done? It's because they're too busy nitpicking apart their own work. In the meantime, life goes on—and so does everyone else's.

Getting more followers used to unsettle me and it sometimes does unsettle me...

...when I lose a follower instead I gain self confidence.

Now I got 12 followers...once I had 10, then I got 11 and then when it went back to 10 I was like:

I feel so much more self confident right now because somebody un-followed me and maybe they didn't like who I am...so now I'm gonna show you the real me and I don't care if you dislike me!

All psychology!

A quotation from Rod Serling

LYMAN: He’s not the enemy. Scott, the Joint Chiefs, even the very emotional, very illogical lunatic fringe: they’re not the enemy. The enemy’s an age — a nuclear age. It happens to have killed man’s faith in his ability to influence what happens to him. And out of this comes a sickness, and out of sickness a frustration, a feeling of impotence, helplessness, weakness. And from this, this desperation, we look for a champion in red, white, and blue. Every now and then a man on a white horse rides by, and we appoint him to be our personal god for the duration. For some men it was a Senator McCarthy, for others it was a General Walker, and now it’s a General Scott.

Rod Serling (1924-1975) American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, narrator
Seven Days in May, film (1964)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/serling-rod/74965/