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Perfectionism isn't enough
The quest for perfection can act as a real spur to achievement. There can be much joy in striving to bring a task to its fullest and finest state of completion. For some, however, the positive desire to be perfect, to do perfect work, can turn sour in what becomes an obsession.
While it might seem like a virtue, even a blessing, to be a perfectionist, it really isn't. If we're obsessed with every technicality, every eventuality, and consumed with a need to make perfect some object or task, what we often find is that despite excessive ambition our work is never quite good enough.

October 25, 1993 issue
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The Editors
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Peer pressure?
Beverly Bemis Hawks DeWindt
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Second Thought
"Did God unleash floods to punish Midwest?" by Rabbi Neil Sandler
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Party animal? That's not you!
Jonathan Daugherty
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A higher basis for leadership
Lyle R. Young
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The real exposure
Sandra Peterson
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Promise of peace
Eleanor P. Humphrey
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Perfectionism isn't enough
Russ Gerber
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Children and their choices
Mary Metzner Trammell
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Mary Baker Eddy makes the statement "Christian Science is...
Pamela Jean Smith with contributions from David Chester Smith
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The most vivid healing I've had in Christian Science took...
Rosalind F. Grande
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"God creates all forms of reality."
Isa Mathison
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When we're working out our salvation with the understanding...
Mary M. Henderson