This is Hello Freedom and I'm your host Terry Cole.

For almost two decades I've been a licensed psychotherapist and transformation coach, and on this show I will bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology, inspiring expert interviews, and my own insights and observations

from my time on the front lines of the fascinating worlds

of entertainment, impairment, and mental health.

Now let's get going with today's episode.

Well, hello and welcome to Hello Freedom. I'm your host Terry Cole.

Today I want to be exploring failure.

How do you feel about failure?

Better question for your perfectionists

is how do you feel about being average?

How do you feel about being mediocre?

Wow, because I think being mediocre is way more terrifying than failing. I don't know why, but I do.

Maybe I have a little bit of the perfectionist complex, not terribly.

But there's something about failure in our society that it really gets a bad name.

And when you really think about what failure is,

it's learning.

growing.

How could we not fail?

If you always stay in the comfort zone of your mastery of what you know for sure that you're great at.

Will you really stretch?

Will you really ever become as illuminated as you could be or grow to the level that you know that you're capable if fear keeps

you stuck. So I think a lot of the times people who have perfectionism it looks like they're so daring, but they're just

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