Can overcoming perfectionism be freeing?

Growing up, I attached a lot of my self-worth, and self-esteem to my work and my grades at school and how good it was in certain disciplines. Growing older as an adult, I've had to detach myself from that. I've had to detach myself from the perfect scorecard or being good in all of those disciplines. It's okay.

On some aspects you'll be average and you'll continue to do it because you still have to show up and speak to people and sometimes I'll speak in all hands or I'll do interviews or something like that. So, you still lean into it and you get yourself out there, but the burden of perfection or that burden that your head is trying to impose on you: that is a narrative that's unnecessary. So yeah, freedom definitely comes from removing yourself from perfectionism.