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“You still love planning, you still love organizing, you still love making it beautiful-but you do it because you want to, not because everything will fall apart if you don't. You operate from a well of desire, not a pit of desperation. Your life may or may not look the same on the outside, but on the inside, much has changed. You stop working to curate a programmed experience. You allow yourself open access to all that you think and feel. You allow yourself to be free.”

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Book:The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
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“In a notable study from the 1990's, researchers examined counterfactual thinking and contract effects in silver and bronze medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics. What they discovered was that silver medalists tend to feel worse than bronze medalists because the most salient counterfactual thought after winning silver is, I could have won gold, whereas the most salient counterfactual thought after winning bronze is, I could have not placed. As the researchers put it, "Imagining what might have been can lead those who do better to feel worse than those they outperform.”

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Book:The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
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