PAULO COELHO

• Trying to do something perfectly is fine but always trying to be a perfectionist is a recipe for disaster.
• Striving for perfection is an avoidable ‘impossible standard’ that makes one self-critical.
• Failure to reach the impossible standard lowers one's self-worth.

1. For Plato, language shows that the idea that there is only one thing is absurd (244c-d): “It makes no sense to say that there are two names, while also thinking that there is nothing more than One. […] In fact, the One, being One, is also the name of the One and of the name it...