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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

UFYB 318: Greatest Hits: Perfectionism & Achieving Impossible Goals

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.65.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We’re getting to that time of year where we start slowing down to reflect on the previous year and start looking forward to the next one. And this is one of the most important episodes for planning, setting goals, and trying to change your life. In this episode, learn what an impossible goal is and how to set one in a way that serves you, understand how perfectionism warps our thinking and how that warped thinking is contributing to the way we think about goals, and how to differentiate between an impossible goal and a perfectionist fantasy.

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0:00.0

Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain, the only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain

0:16.3

and get what you want in life.

0:18.6

And now here's your host, Harvard Law School Grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach,

0:24.7

Kara Loyenthyle.

0:28.0

Hello, my chickens.

0:29.6

I am preparing a little something of a 20-24 glow-up experience for you all.

0:36.5

I'm just something that we are still saying glow-up, you know?

0:39.1

I'm 42.

0:40.1

I'm not always on the cutting edge, but that's really how I've been thinking about it.

0:43.5

I feel like a lot of us, it's been a pretty intense year in a lot of ways, it's continuing to be a pretty intense

0:48.8

year, but we're just ready for a little more shine. So here's how this is all going to look.

0:54.8

We're starting today with a repeat of one of my most important episodes when it

1:01.0

comes to setting goals and planning and trying to change your life.

1:06.9

So we're going to be listening to 166, which is perfectionism and achieving impossible goals.

1:13.6

This is really important bedrock teaching

1:16.8

before we even start trying to set a goal,

1:19.5

understanding how perfectionism is kind of warping our thinking and is contributing to the

1:26.2

way we think about goals. So we're going to start with that. We do have an

1:30.5

incredible interview episode next week with Elise Lunin, the author of the Seven Deadly

1:35.7

Sins.

1:36.7

So that's an incredible conversation about the way that the sort of traditional Christian sins have been associated with women over the

1:45.2

year.

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