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The quest for psychological perfection - by Dr. Gena Gorlin

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Why I've wholeheartedly embraced it, and why everyone else should, too

Image credit: “Pneuma,” © Kelsy Landin Recently my friend and colleague Ray Girn published this weekly memo addressed to everyone at his company, Higher Ground Education—an organization whose mission is to “mainstream and modernize Montessori education”: The memo champions the once-reverenced pursuit of perfection—of the highest standards of excellence in our work and in our own character—as a serious, mission-critical ideal. Ray notes that the very concept of perfection has gotten a bad name in our culture, which equates the genuine pursuit of perfection with pathological perfectionism:…

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