Perfectionism Is A Disease

don't stress

Just be curious about everything around you

Don't try to force yourself to think of something all the time

Allow yourself to forget things

Don't stress

formula for success

part luck + part privilege + part hard work + part talent

Luck and talent cannot be controlled

Privilege can be influenced or bought

That's why we focus on hard work

But if we don't succeed, it's not always because we didn't work hard enough

And actually it's almost always luck

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everybody's a creative

Anyone can be creative and come up with ideas

But real creatives come up with ideas and own the ideas

Execute and own the execution

Take feedback without taking it personally and then make changes to fit the bill

This takes training and hardwork

This takes dedication and persistence

Go ahead and call yourself a creative but don't forget to do all these things

Human beings are not rational being, we're rationalizing beings

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seek different experiences

Just doing or experiencing one thing continuously in life leads to fatigue, boredom, and a mundane life

You need to do and experience different things

For example, with your partner if you just have positive experiences, it'll wear them out and you'll become less excited the next time a positive experience happens. You need to also experience negative things with your partner.

This being said, the concept of "balance" is not true here. You shouldn't have the same number of positive and negative experiences. Negative ones should be less and interspersed throughout the positive ones.

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