The Secret to Happiness with Robert Mack

It's again , it's a gift and a curse , right ? Because of the perfectionism , you operate with a certain level of excellence , but at the same time , you , you still feel inadequate , even though you're doing exceptionally well , you just nailed it . That's absolutely right .

The Secret to Happiness with Robert Mack

Uh you can do that with athletes , you see that with artists , you can do it with entrepreneurs and business people um with all people . So yeah , perfectionism uh looks like a good thing on the surface often . But when you dig deep enough , you find out very quickly that it gets in the way way of actually better performance .

The Secret to Happiness with Robert Mack

Yeah . You know , the perfectionism , I know so many people struggle with , um especially people who are high achievers , right ? It's again , it's a gift and a curse , right ?

The Secret to Happiness with Robert Mack

Yeah . So many things , you know , um really one thing ultimately , but it was , you know , sort of perfectionism . I was an empath , you know , I had an incredibly loving supportive family .

The Secret to Happiness with Robert Mack

My nervous system was always felt like it was wired pretty high . Um But ultimately , at the end of the day , what it really was was an obsessive compulsive thinking and over analytical mind that just made a problem out of everything and really good at solving problems was also really good at finding problems and creating problems . So at the end of the game is really over .