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Why Being Perfect Makes Us Weak — Alyson and Tripp Lanier
Whether it’s your looks, your job, or whatever — do you feel a lot of pressure to get it right?
Do you ever beat the hell out of yourself for making a mistake?
And if we all know that no one’s perfect, then why do so many of us think we should be?
Today Alyson and I dig into perfectionism: how we get wired for it, why we let it abuse us, and why striving to get it right makes it harder for us to have what we truly want in life.
In this conversation:
- Beating yourself up because you made a mistake
- When there’s no room for mistakes
- Deep fear of revealing our imperfections
- Why perfectionism makes us fragile
- Barry Michels, God, and perfectionism
Plus:
- What do we really want by getting it right?
- What’s driving our perfectionism?
- Needing a foundation of acceptance, forgiveness, and remembrance
- How believing we’re separate adds to our fragility
- What if making mistakes made you better at what you do
About Tripp Lanier
Tripp Lanier is a professional coach, author of This Book Will Make You Dangerous, and host of The New Man Podcast: Beyond the Macho Jerk and the New Age Wimp which — for over a decade — has been downloaded millions of times.
Since 2005, he has spent thousands of hours coaching people all around the world to get out of the rat race, become an authority in their field, and make a great living doing the work they were put on this earth to do. Over the years he’s designed several businesses to support a simple lifestyle focused on freedom, ease, meaning, and fun.
If you’d like to learn more about coaching with Tripp Lanier visit TrippLanier.com.
About Alyson Lanier
Alyson Lanier is a multifaceted expert at the intersection of psychological and spiritual healing. With a 30 year career in Psychotherapy that includes a BA, MA, and LPC in psychology, Alyson supplemented her education with extensive training and certifications in attachment work, Gestalt therapy, Transpersonal psychology, Shambhala Buddhism, internal family systems, and Psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. Her professional journey encompasses over 50,000 hours of therapeutic experience working with individuals, couples, families, children, and adolescents across clinical and private settings.
If you’d like to learn more about working with Alyson Lanier visit AlysonLanier.com
