Join 📚 Nicole's Highlights

A batch of the best highlights from what Nicole's read, .

Something inside unclenches. It’s equivalent to that moment when, caught in a rainstorm without an umbrella, you finally abandon your futile efforts to stay dry, and accept getting soaked to the skin. Very well, then: this is how things are.

Meditations for Mortals

Oliver Burkeman

You could argue that Martha Stewart built an empire on her perfectionism and is perhaps the most celebrated female perfectionist of our time, but notice what her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, centers itself on: brunch recipes in a pinch, all things holiday entertaining, paint palettes that pop, weddings. These are archetypal homemaker interests.

The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control

Katherine Morgan Schafler

If you’re a perfectionist, you want more of something. What is it? Why do you want that? How do you imagine getting what you want will make you feel? Perfectionism invites a deep, unending exploration of who you are and what you most desire from this life.

The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control

Katherine Morgan Schafler

...catch up on these, and many more highlights