{"id":3037,"date":"2024-06-28T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T07:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2024-06-28T10:45:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T07:45:16","slug":"why-does-imperfection-maintain-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/why-does-imperfection-maintain-perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Imperfection Maintain Perfection?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There is a crack in everything; that&#8217;s how the light gets in.&#8221; \u2014Leonard Cohen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just this week I saw Ridley Scott\u2019s brilliant biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, and I was reminded of the opening sentence of an address by the French senate to Napoleon. This was a senate, that, as Paul Watzlawick pointed out, had the unenviable advantage of having experienced \u2014 and survived \u2014 the consequences of the attempted im\u00adposition of \u2018liberty, fraternity and egalite\u2019 on the French population. In their address, they said, &#8220;Sire, the desire for perfection is one of the worst maladies that can affect the human mind&#8221;, and I believe they were correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read the whole article by the original source through the link below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/nz\/blog\/escaping-our-mental-traps\/202311\/why-does-imperfection-maintain-perfection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/nz\/blog\/escaping-our-mental-traps\/202311\/why-does-imperfection-maintain-perfection<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is a crack in everything; that&#8217;s how the light gets in.&#8221; \u2014Leonard Cohen Just this week I saw Ridley Scott\u2019s brilliant biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, and I was reminded of the opening sentence of an address by the French senate to Napoleon. This was a senate, that, as Paul Watzlawick pointed out, had the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[190,76,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imperfection-el","category-ocd-el","category-perfectionism-el","entry","no-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p87S9d-MZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}