“You're going to have to settle for sub-par performance and realize your imperfect like the rest of us”. This is a quote from the story Pancakes that is very true and makes you think that you have something imperfect about you. For Jill, a perfectionist this it's hard to realize that nobody can be perfect at everything but soon she’ll learn that their is such thing as being imperfect. Picture a somewhat empty cafe and then all of a sudden a lady comes in with a question. The question is “Table for sixty-six?” you can just imagine how Jill felt at that moment and how anxiety she had.…
2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.…
Is it possible for anyone to be perfect? Not at all! The theme that I chose was was that it is foolish to strive for perfection. In this paper I will support this theme by explaining how this relates to “The Birthmark”.…
Alfred Adler postulates a single "drive" or motivating force behind all our behavior and experience. By the time his theory had gelled into its most mature form, he called that motivating force the striving for perfection. It is the desire we all have to fulfill our potentials, to come closer and closer to our ideal. It is, as many of you will already see, very similar to the more popular idea of self-actualization. (Hoffman pg. 1)…
This world cannot withstand the concept of perfection. Perfection is something reserved for the boundaries of Heaven and cannot be synthetically created by any human being. Nature is raw, flawed and does not take well to being improved upon. This is why Nature ultimately has the final say in what can and cannot existence. In “The Birthmark”, Hawthorne suggests that nothing and no one is perfect nor has the ability to obtain said perfection. An obsession to surpass Earthly Nature can and will result in the destruction of what was once loved.…
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” This quote said by author Ralph Waldo Emerson is often said by athletes, businessmen, and optimists alike and give them an extra boost of encouragement. From my personal experiences and thoughts, it is true that if one never tries to improve, one never will. When I want to become a leader, when an acquaintance wants to become better, and when one truly believes in themselves, we can master anything.…
Genesis 1:27 states that “God created mankind in his own image”. Being great is within us all. We are all given the tools at birth to make something of the gifts that we possess. I am a person that believes anyone can achieve anything they put their minds to, no matter the limitations. Many people often unknowingly limit themselves because they set a ceiling on their potential. Often times, people fall short of greatness not because they aimed too high, but they aimed too low. I have always thought that it was better to set a high goal and to miss, than set a low goal and accomplish it. If you live a life where you are bounded by your limitations, you never truly know how far you could have pushed the envelope and accomplish something. As a result, it is no surprise that those who constantly challenge themselves reach higher peaks than those who are simply satisfied with where they are. Comfort is the enemy of progress. Aristotle is quoted saying that “we are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”. I think that this thinking should be applied to goal setting as well. Instead of creating a goal, one should create a system to achieve the goal. The difference is that when a goal is attained, there is no progress beyond that. However, when a system is created, you are able to push pass a goal. Getting a college degree is just a product of the system I have created for myself in order to impact that world on a greater…
Perfectionism, in psychology, is a belief that perfection can and should be attained. In its pathological form, perfectionism is a belief that work or output which is anything less than perfect is unacceptable. At such levels, this is considered an unhealthy belief, and psychologists typically refer to such individuals as maladaptive perfectionists thus perfection is not normal. People like perfectionism because it is excellence and those like Gatsby strive for that eventhough it is impossible to get like when Gatsby describes his car as , a rich cream colour, with bright nickel, monstrous length, with triumphant hat boxes (page 51). The whole American Dream is based on idealism. Perfect things dont exist in the world: for instance, walls are not fully straight, and apples are never fully round. The Great Gatsby is a very good example of how perfection is not useful; just harmful. Gatsby wouldve been better off living his life which was near perfection because he almost had everything, there only was one imperfection: he did not possess Daisy. Perfect is too good to be true.…
Upon entering high school, I raised my determination to an even higher level by vowing to reach my full academic potential. I have never failed from that day forward to strive to keep my vow. Failing math made me a different person. I went from one of the lowest academic students in my class, to presently one of the highest. Who says failure isn’t a good thing? As far as I’m concerned, failing was the best thing that ever happened to…
The main idea of the Critique of Pure Reason is based upon Immanuel Kant’s idea of ‘transcendental idealism’. Here Kant talks about space and time primarily and how humans perceive objects, especially as only appearances and not things in themselves. This essay shows that to better understand Kant’s ‘transcendental idealism’ is to understand the transcendental realism with which this essay will show is the actual opposite. The essay details the connection between the concepts of an object considered as such and a thing considered as it is in itself, using space and time specifically. To begin with, what exactly is just idealism?…
It is not difficult to learn transcendental meditation. If you are looking to escape from the whirlwind of ringing cell phones, traffic snarls and screaming kids, transcendental meditation can provide a peaceful getaway from the craziness of everyday life.…
The fallacy of perfection is ”Believing you should be able to handle every situation with complete confidence and skill.” (Adler and Proctor 139) The way that I demonstrate this fallacy is by only doing things that I think I will succeed at. In other words I only like to do things that I will be perfect at or things that allow me to be the best. Many things in my life have been affected by this. I joined jazz choir, decided to play guitar and perform, and joined track all because I thought that I could do it perfectly. In the case of track I wasn’t perfect. There were many people who were better than me on the team. I didn’t like the feeling of not being the best, so I quit in 7th grade. This fallacy is not good for my self esteem because I end up letting myself down when I am not the best. To help with this fallacy I remind myself that it is impossible to be the best all the…
All throughout my life, my parents have constantly expected perfection, or as close to that as I could get. They want me to be the best that I could possibly be. Unconsciously, this ideal has become my standard and I don’t want to accept failure or disappointment. Not from myself or the people I chose to surround myself with. I expect the best from everyone.…
While individuals plan to become a Perfectionist, could also lead to disappointment and become shame because so much time is being consumed with anxiety to reach their planned goals. If you think about what society has done for individuals to compete with, no one could ever become perfect. John Lennon beat his first wife, Martin Luther King Jr. had extramarital affairs…Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Einstein, and even Mother Theresa must have done things that were…
Perhaps we have been told by well-meaning friends or relatives that we should strive for perfection. A common proverb is:…