As a recovering perfectionist, I know all too well the plight of "Get it Right". I yearned for A's in school as if my life depended upon it. To ensure that sweet peaked shape on my report cards, I would spend more of my semester trying to figure out what the teacher wanted to see in a paper than I did actually learning. Perhaps that got me through school with a relatively high GPA but it robbed me of the curiosity and exploration that lead to real learning.
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