Article Title: Besanlal’s micro-view on budget macro-issues
Article Summary
This article is about perfectionism and how we can overcome it. The writer describes the beginning of her teaching career, it was a time when she used to compare herself with others and used to hold herself to unreasonably high standards. This causes a lot of suffering and unhappiness. The author believes that we may have been conditioned to think like this by our parents, peers or even by the media. This constant act of comparing and grading that goes on in our minds is exhausting and stressful. The writer highlights the teachings of Buddha and how they can be used to overcome perfectionism. The two ways that writer describes are: mindfulness and self-compassion.
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Words to learn from this Article:
Sternly: in a serious and severe manner, especially when asserting authority or exercising discipline.
Trance: a half-conscious state characterized by an absence of response to external stimuli, typically as induced by hypnosis or entered by a medium.
Pliant: easily influenced or directed; yielding.
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