Chasing Perfection: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the High-Stakes Game of Creating an NBA Champion

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If you want to learn how to stop chasing perfection and realize you are enough, you have to practice self-love and be more compassionate with yourself. However, as the professor recalls, “He proceeded to tell me that the A+ was just a demonstration of how much of a failure he was.” If he’d been perfect, the student reasoned, he wouldn’t have had to work so hard to achieve it. There are two kinds of perfect: The one you can never achieve, and the other, by just being yourself. ― Lauren King Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord."

The question isn’t whether the world is perfect. The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it? ― Eric Micha’el Leventhal Chasing Perfection is a series of 2 documentaries authored by one of the World’s most successful athletes, Michael Johnson. Sports science has changed immeasurably in the last 20 years, and what the series seeks to explore is how that change has impacted on the world of professional sport, and what role it plays in creating exceptional athletes, does it define the difference between great and World beating athletes and is it the answer to achieving perfection in sport? American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. ― W. Somerset Maugham Quotes on Perfection being Overrated

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Spending time away from the things that drive you to pursue perfection will remind you what is important to you, recharge, change your perspective, and also help you connect with your inner self. I know myself and how this process goes: I start by fabricating the expectation that this article has to be perfectly thorough and encompass everything that’s ever been written on perfectionism. Perfection is overrated, boring. It’s the imperfections-the vulnerabilities, the weaknesses, the human elements-that make us who we are, that make us real, beautiful…necessary. ― Guy Harrison You already have too many things working against you, and the relentless pursuit of perfection should not be one of them. And He has said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.' Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me."

O Lord, You are my God; I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name; For You have worked wonders, plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness." Graduate Program in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USAPerfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.”– Marcus Aurelius in “Meditations” Frost, R.O., Marten, P., Lahart, C. et al. The dimensions of perfectionism. Cogn Ther Res 14 , 449–468 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01172967 Other psychologists also insist that self-compassion can be taught. Our Spotlight features several therapeutic practices that have been shown to boost self-kindness. Perhaps the only reason you think you are not good enough or like your life is not perfect is that you are comparing it to someone else’s whom you consider to have achieved perfection. It could be someone you know or just from the high expectations of other people. Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.”– Alain de Botton