I am a perfectionist and have always had an utter disdain for failure. This has kept me from trying a lot of things in my life. Having finally accepted that failure is a requirement for a fulfilling and diversified life experience, I have created this year long project in an attempt to become comfortable with the idea of failing. This blog chronicles my journey with failure.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Day 46: Overcoming my School Fears = Success!
Today, I had several things that I needed to get done for school.
*a lab report for cognitive psychology
*3 blog post responses for my Existentialism class
*a flyer for my school's secular campus group for an event we're doing tomorrow
All of these activities presented me with a large amount of fear. I was afraid that I wouldn't do a good job on any of these things. For me, if I don't think I'm going to do a good (good = perfect) job on something, I would just rather not do it. I get no pleasure from doing things that aren't worthy of an A; I'd rather get a 0 on something than a C. It's weird, I know. But that's why I'm doing this year long project, ya know.
Result: I completed all of the above things, and I think I did at least a pretty good job on them. So yay for making myself push through my fears rather than just giving up and not doing them! :-)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment