Advice For The Highly Critical (Self and Others)
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The practice of unrestrained, uber-criticism towards ourselves and others is almost never helpful. Very often, we are well-oiled machines of criticism, again aimed at ourselves first and foremost, then others as a byproduct. Why? Often it stems from a desire to be perfect.
The writer Anne Lamott put it this way: "Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people."
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