Ep 50 Growth in Failure: Ditching Perfectionism & Embracing A Messy Life
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Spiritually Hungry, Monica and Michael conclude their series on self-sabotage, this week exploring how striving to be perfect actually disrupts our lives and leads us to judging ourselves and others. Listen as they discuss the real benefits of leading a ‘messy’ life, one in which we abandon the illusion of perfection and embrace our failures as opportunities for growth.
We aren’t meant to be perfect; we are meant to live in the mud and, from that mud, take out a spark of Light. – Michael Berg
Further readings:
Mental Immunity by Andy Norman
Bird By Bird by Ann Lamott
The Pursuit of Perfect by Tal Ben-Shahar
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| 0:00.0 | Judgment is so dangerous for both the speaker and also the one on the receiving end of it. |
| 0:13.9 | And it is a choice, a mental choice, of what you allow to come in and what you don't, |
| 0:18.5 | because the consequences are far-reaching. As much as you judge other |
| 0:22.0 | people, the judgment that you bring towards yourself is tenfold because you really are not able. |
| 0:26.7 | And I've learned this because I used to be very judgmental and mostly to myself. When I worked on |
| 0:32.6 | the self part and I removed that, then I stopped judging others because usually it's like a lack |
| 0:36.7 | that you have from within. |
| 0:38.3 | And we've said this before that I don't believe somebody who's really content with their life |
| 0:43.3 | has the time or the inclination to be judging other people. |
| 0:47.3 | Yeah, it's funny, I wrote this quote down. |
| 0:49.3 | Remember, people are probably not happy in their own lives if they're busy discussing yours. |
| 0:52.3 | This life system is an up and down system. |
| 0:55.1 | You fall, you're going to hopefully higher than we before, but nobody is ever meant to live |
| 1:00.6 | a life where they haven't failed, where they haven't fallen. |
| 1:06.7 | Welcome to the spiritually hungry podcast episode 50. |
| 1:11.6 | The Big Five-O. |
| 1:12.6 | Officially it's older than you. |
| 1:14.6 | It's funny today. Actually, somebody, I'm having my birthday next week and somebody |
| 1:20.6 | texting me today, is it a significant one? Are you turning 50? |
| 1:24.6 | I said, no, no, no, I'm only turning 48. I'm really, really young. |
| 1:28.1 | Aren't they all significant, by the way? Yes, I thought so too. But he's actually old. |
| 1:32.2 | I don't know, he's about 10 years older than me. He said, so am I. Yes. So we're still |
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