If you have a perfectionist streak - and who doesn't? - running can kill the perfectionist inside you.
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Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.
You can't ever make the perfect run, but you can make the best run, and then you clock the fastest time, and that's a win.
Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.
I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.
I am a perfectionist.
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
Perfectionist? That's not something I am.
I'm a perfectionist.
I am not strong on perfection.
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