
How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism
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Daniel Penz
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Stephen Guise
About this listen
I remember when I aimed for perfect workouts: 30 minutes was the minimum.
I was in lousy shape.
I remember when I aimed for perfect dating: it couldn't be awkward, forced, or uncertain.
I didn't talk to women I was interested in.
I remember when I aimed for perfect writing: I wanted 1,000+ words of quality material per day.
I played video games instead.
I carefully avoided mistakes, endlessly ruminated about what I didn't do, and what I did do wasn't enough.
Then, I became an imperfectionist.
Everything changed. I had fun stories to tell, like the lesbian pizza incident and the most nervous "Hi" ever spoken by a human being. I learned more. I laughed more. I lived more.
I got in great shape, read more books, and improved my social skills. I wrote Mini Habits, which is being translated into a dozen languages.
I found I could mess up and still win.
Perfectionism is a naturally limiting mindset. For example, kids are taught to color inside the lines, and any color outside the lines is considered a mistake that must be corrected. Imperfectionism frees us to live outside the lines, where possibilities are infinite, mistakes are allowed, and self-judgment is minimal.
While the freedom of imperfectionism is impactful, it does not preclude us from having problems. Imperfectionists aren't so ironic as to have perfect lives, they're just happier, healthier, and more productive at doing what matters.
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You will never diet again. Say goodbye to calorie counting, restrictive food bans, or other forced behaviors. In Mini Habits for Weight Loss, you will learn how to lose weight naturally in the precise way your body and brain are meant to change.
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Skip the first half!
- By Cecil on 06-02-17
By: Stephen Guise
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The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
- A Path to Peace and Power
- By: Katherine Morgan Schafler
- Narrated by: Katherine Morgan Schafler
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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We’ve been looking at perfectionism all wrong. As psychotherapist and former on-site therapist at Google Katherine Morgan Schafler argues in The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control, you don’t have to stop being a perfectionist to be healthy. For women who are sick of being given the generic advice to “find balance,” a new approach has arrived.
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The Life Changing Book I didn’t know I needed
- By S. RINCON on 04-23-23
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Creative Calling
- Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life
- By: Chase Jarvis
- Narrated by: Chase Jarvis
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Life isn’t about “finding” fulfillment and success - it’s about creating it. Why then has creativity been given a back seat in our culture? No longer. Creativity is a force inside every person that, when unleashed, transforms our lives and delivers vitality to everything we do. Establishing a creative practice is therefore our most valuable and urgent task - as important to our well-being as exercise or nutrition. The good news? Renowned artist, author, and CreativeLive founder, Chase Jarvis, reminds us that creativity isn't a skill - it's a habit available to everyone.
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Basic motivation
- By kimberly on 12-18-19
By: Chase Jarvis
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You Are Not Lazy, You Are a Perfectionist
- Laziness Is Not a Part of You When Anxiety Strikes! Know Why Your Deadlines Slip Away and Gradually Wipe Out the Perfectionism-Procrastination Cycles
- By: J.C. Secche
- Narrated by: Keith L. O'Brien
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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Do ideas race in your head, one competing to outdo the other in an infinite loop, preventing you from getting to the action stage? Do you intend to do many projects to change the world but find yourself unable to get started even on the first one in your long, winding to-do list? I got you right this time! You are not lazy, you are a perfectionist! Be embarrassed no more after today as your never-ending piles of tasks are going to be neatly checked and tucked away. No more sweating, snoozing, and sabotaging, for smiling is the new norm!
By: J.C. Secche
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Anything You Want
- 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
- By: Derek Sivers
- Narrated by: Derek Sivers, Naina Kader
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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You started a business. But why? Entrepreneurs often lose sight of what matters. Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn't that enough? Derek Sivers accidentally started a business by helping musicians sell their music. It became the largest online seller of independent music with over 150,000 musicians and $100M in sales. After ten years, he sold the company for $22 million and gave all the money to charity.
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First non-toxic tech success story
- By Anonymous User on 05-09-25
By: Derek Sivers
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The Gifts of Imperfection, 10th Anniversary Edition
- Features a New Foreword
- By: Brené Brown
- Narrated by: Brené Brown
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
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For more than a decade, Brené Brown has found a special place in our hearts as a gifted mapmaker and a fellow traveler. She is both a social scientist and a kitchen table friend whom you can always count on to tell the truth, make you laugh, and, on occasion, cry with you. And what's now become a movement all started with The Gifts of Imperfection, which has sold more than two million copies in 35 different languages across the globe.
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Anecdotal drivel
- By Megan M. Jeffries on 11-14-20
By: Brené Brown
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The Magic of Momentum
- Escape Any Rut. Build Winning Streaks. Use Forward Motion to Change the Trajectory of Your Life
- By: Stephen Guise
- Narrated by: George Acevedo
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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Your power to change one moment can create life-changing momentum. In The Magic of Momentum, international best-selling author Stephen Guise reveals how momentum works differently in our behavior and lives than it does in other areas. Behavioral momentum, however, is far more powerful than other forms of momentum. It’s not the “string of successes” we often perceive it to be. Behavioral momentum is layered and exponential because every action you take changes how your brain interprets that behavior.
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A great book, whether or not you have read Guise’s previous work
- By Bigkids on 05-09-22
By: Stephen Guise
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Elastic Habits
- How to Create Smarter Habits That Adapt to Your Day
- By: Stephen Guise
- Narrated by: Daniel Penz
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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We try our best to be consistent, but some days are better than others. Inevitably, we fail when "life happens", because each day we try to hit the same targets regardless of the situations we face. How, then, can we make our habits more resilient to the turbulence of life? By making them elastic. If you’re tired of the repetitive and exhausting grind to develop good habits, it’s time to give your habits the refreshing superpower of elasticity. Listen to Elastic Habits now, and you’ll soon discover the life-changing difference of good habits that adapt to your day.
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A good system, but more wordy than it needs to be
- By LaffingKat on 01-03-20
By: Stephen Guise
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How to Write One Song
- Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
- By: Jeff Tweedy
- Narrated by: Jeff Tweedy
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
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There are few creative acts more mysterious and magical than writing a song. But what if the goal wasn't so mysterious and was actually achievable for anyone who wants to experience more magic and creativity in their life? That's something that anyone will be inspired to do after listening to Jeff Tweedy's How to Write One Song. Why one song? The idea of becoming a capital-S songwriter can seem daunting, but approached as a focused, self-contained event, the mystery and fear subsides, and songwriting becomes an exciting pursuit.
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Practical and actionable recipes for songwriting
- By Dry Toast Fan on 11-20-20
By: Jeff Tweedy
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The Perfection Trap
- Embracing the Power of Good Enough
- By: Thomas Curran
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Today, burnout and depression are at record levels, driven by a combination of intense workplace competition, oppressively ubiquitous social media encouraging comparisons with others, the quest for elite credentials, and helicopter parenting. Society continually broadcasts the need to want more, and to be perfect. Gathering a wide range of contemporary evidence, Curran calls for both introspection and broader, societal change. He shows what we can do as individuals to resist the modern-day pressure to be perfect, and in so doing, win for ourselves a more purposeful and contented life.
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The Answers I Didn’t Know I Needed
- By John on 08-14-23
By: Thomas Curran
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The Art of Asking
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
- By: Amanda Palmer, Brené Brown - foreword, Jamy Ian Swiss
- Narrated by: Amanda Palmer, Ellen Archer, Jamy Ian Swiss
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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In The Art of Asking, Palmer expands upon her popular TED talk to reveal how ordinary people, those of us without thousands of Twitter followers and adoring fans, can use her principles in our own lives to "let people help".
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The title is a misnomer
- By Meenakshi Dogra on 01-10-18
By: Amanda Palmer, and others
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The Dip
- By: Seth Godin
- Narrated by: Seth Godin
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Every new project (or job, or hobby, or company) starts out exciting and fun. Then it gets harder and less fun, until it hits a low point: really hard, and not much fun at all. And then you find yourself asking if the goal is even worth the hassle. Maybe you're in a Dip: a temporary setback that you will overcome if you keep pushing. But maybe it's really a Cul-de-Sac, which will never get better, no matter how hard you try.
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Waste of time
- By EA on 08-04-07
By: Seth Godin
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How to Be Enough
- Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists
- By: Ellen Hendriksen
- Narrated by: Ellen Hendriksen
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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Dr. Ellen Hendriksen—clinical psychologist, anxiety specialist, and author of How to Be Yourself—charts a flexible, forgiving, and freeing path, all without giving up the excellence your high standards and hard work have gotten you. She delivers seven shifts—including from self-criticism to kindness, control to authenticity, procrastination to productivity, comparison to contentment—to find self-acceptance, rewrite the Inner Rulebook, and most of all, cultivate the authentic human connections we’re all craving.
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Revealing
- By Anonymous User on 05-21-25
By: Ellen Hendriksen
Just what I needed
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Helpful
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One of the best self-help books I've ever read!
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Stephen Guise's stories referring to Mini Habits were one of the things I found most helpful.
Coaching through insecurities
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My teenager loved it!
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Good, but not perfect. ;-)
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Good book
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Awesome book - must read/listen for those with perfectionist tendencies / problem
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Impactful
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Concrete advice!
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