How to Strive for Excellence (and Still Be Human!)

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Jennifer and her sister Carolyn Bever speak with Monica Packer of the About Progress podcast all about how to develop ourselves without perfectionism getting in the way! Listen to hear more about... - How Carolyn went from only being able to run down the block to qualifying for the Boston Marathon. - What parenting has taught Jennifer about herself and her own problematic perfectionism. - How to overcome fears of failure or discomfort. - The normalcy of perfectionism, the false ideas within it, and how we can transcend it. This is a unique self-development podcast that you don't want to miss! Read the transcript by clicking HERE. To learn more about Dr. Finlayson-Fife’s work, visit our Website, check out our Course Page, and take a look at our upcoming Events. You can also follow Dr. Finlayson-Fife on Instagram or join her FREE Facebook Group for greater access to her insights. www.Finlayson-Fife.com You can also listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, and Stitcher. The advice offered through Dr. Finlayson-Fife’s Podcast Archive is educational and informational in nature and is provided only as general information. It is not meant to establish a therapist-patient relationship or offer therapeutic advice, opinion, diagnosis treatment or to establish a standard of care. Although Dr. Finlayson-Fife is a trained psychotherapist, she is not functioning in the role of a licensed therapist during these sessions, but rather using her training to inform these sessions. Thus, the content is not intended to replace independent professional judgment. The content is not intended to solicit clients or patients; and should not be relied upon as medical or psychological advice of any kind or nature whatsoever. The information provided through the Content should not be used for diagnosing or treating a mental health problem or disease. The information contained in these communications is not comprehensive and does not include all the potential information regarding the subject matter, but is merely intended to serve as one resource for general and educational purposes. Listen to a full version of this episode, including Monica's notes and thoughts about the interview at www.aboutprogress.com or by visiting Monica's Instagram page at @aboutprogress.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Ruby, and I'm Dr. Jennifer Finlason-Fike's assistant, and you're listening to the Dr Finlason-5 podcast Archive.
0:08.0	The podcast you'll be listening to today is entitled How to Strive for Excellence and Still Be Human,
0:14.1	originally produced and published by Monica Packer of the About Progress
0:18.0	podcast. Welcome and we hope you enjoy this episode.
0:21.0	You are listening to About progress. This is episode 313, how to
0:27.2	strive for excellence and still be human with Dr. Jennifer Finlason
0:31.4	Fife and Carolyn Bever.
0:33.5	For me, seventh grade, which was the first year of junior high
0:36.3	where I lived, marks the turning point
0:38.7	for me being a normal kid,
0:40.6	okay with whatever my efforts produced to being obsessed with greatness and this
0:46.1	translated in all facets of my life from getting good grades to how I was
0:51.3	dancing to my own self-righteousness and the ways I pursued music.
0:56.0	Speaking of which, I joined Band as a seventh grader and I decided to play the flute because that's what my older sister already did so we had one and I miss
1:05.1	summer band so I arrived to band the first day of school not knowing a single thing
1:10.4	and it took me about two minutes into the period to realize that I was the bottom of the whole line of flute players which was probably well over 20 at that point.
1:21.0	While I had taught myself to make a sound on the flute before school began all the other
1:25.2	flute players knew at least one full skill so I quickly realized that I had a long way to go and I knew who was at the very top to beat.
1:34.8	Now my determination took over and I practiced around the clock.
1:38.1	I taught myself everything on the flute and I was relentless and
1:42.1	out challenging the girl ahead of her and on and on and on
1:47.0	until I finally got to challenge the first chair of Flautist and I won. Now while that moment was totally exhilarating for me as a 12 year old
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