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On Not Being Good Enough
An essay about ambition, self-doubt, perfectionism, and the exhausting little monster inside that keeps asking for more.

https://sisyphusrockinghell.co/on-not-being-good-enough/

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On not being good enough

Oh, the quest for perfection. Reminds me of my handsome, arrogant, oh so difficult younger self. He thought - wrongly - that he could do anything. I know, I speak as a 100 year old man, and it’s because I feel just like that. So much has happened. Such

Sisyphus rocking hell

Grow with Mama KK 3d ago

Motivational Monday: Speak to Yourself Like the Person You’re Becoming

Discipline is not only about action — it begins with self-talk. This Motivational Monday post explores how the words you say to yourself shape your mindset, confidence, and growth. Learn how to replace self-doubt with truth and speak with the kind of encouragement your future self would offer.

https://smallshiftsbigchanges.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/motivational-monday-speak-to-yourself-like-the-person-youre-becoming/

WIST Quotations May 23

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

Never allow your mind to dwell on your own misconduct: that is ruin. The conscience has morbid sensibilities; it must be employed but not indulged, like the imagination or the stomach.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 7.1 “Discipline of Conscience”

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Stevenson, Robert Louis - Essay (1880-01/02?), "Reflections and Remarks on Human Life," § 7.1 "Discipline of Conscience" | WIST Quotations

Never allow your mind to dwell on your own misconduct: that is ruin. The conscience has morbid sensibilities; it must be employed but not indulged, like the imagination or the stomach. A collection of aphorisms and musings, first published in the Edinburgh Edition of his Works, vol. 28 (1898).

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CBC North May 11

Hay River woman graduates high school at 32, overcoming self-doubt and addiction
A special graduation was held Friday at the Chief Sunrise Education Centre on the Kátł'odeeche First Nation, near Hay River, N.W.T., to celebrate a woman who overcame addiction and self-doubt to earn her high school diploma.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/hay-river-woman-graduates-high-school-at-32-overcoming-self-doubt-and-addiction-9.7194191?cmp=rss

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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

It is the business of this life to make excuses for others, but none for ourselves. We should be clearly persuaded of our own misconduct, for that is the part of knowledge in which we are most apt to be defective.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 1.1 “Justice and Justification”

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Stevenson, Robert Louis - Essay (1880-01/02?), "Reflections and Remarks on Human Life," § 1.1 "Justice and Justification" | WIST Quotations

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WIST Quotations Apr 30

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, “to be free from freedom.” It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 2, ch. 5, § 26 (1951)

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Hoffer, Eric - True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 2, ch. 5, § 26 (1951) | WIST Quotations

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Journaling Apr 30

The Step You Keep Almost Taking

You know what the next move is. You've written it down. You've seen it across your journal entries. You keep almost making it. This isn't about fear or laziness. It's about waiting for readiness that only ever comes through the step itself. So make the step smaller.

https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/the-step-you-keep-almost-taking/

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A quotation from Montesquieu

I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

[J’ai la maladie de faire des livres et d’en être honteux quand je les ai faits.]

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 83 / 837 (1720-1755)

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