Welcome to season four of the Brave Writer Podcast, A Brave Writers Life in Brief.

I'm Julie Bogart, your host.

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So this week has been really fun for me and today's topic was recommended by

Danny one of our popular homeschool brave writer moms who seems to be parapetetic and everywhere I look.

So what we're doing today is we're going to look at the habit of perfectionism, the bad habit, right? The one we want to get rid of, right? Here's the thing.

We all know what perfectionism is and we actually all know how to cure it. So why are we all still perfectionists? What is the drive that keeps this thing going when we know it's the enemy?

I think it's because we're not very good at letting it go, right? So as is my

typical style, I did research and I started thinking about the dynamics. Sometimes if we can tease apart the specific issues and we can

sort of look at them with a different lens, we can come up with some more tools in our toolkit for letting go of the things that just don't work for us.

But I thought it might be fun to start out with,

when is perfectionism appropriate?

In other words, did you know there are some situations that call for absolute perfection?

Absolute, like no excuses, like you better do it right. Yes, surgery.

Surgery is a great example.

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