“When you believe you must be perfect in order to be good, it makes you adverse to recognizing your own inevitable imperfections…. [Which is] an obstacle to being as good as you can be.... We need to move away from the premise that being a good person is a fixed, immutable characteristic and shift towards seeing 'being good' as a practice. And it is a practice that we carry out by engaging with our imperfections…. We need to shift towards thinking of being a good person the same as being a clean person. Being a clean person is something you maintain and work on everyday...." ~Jay Smooth Watch it! — http://tinyurl.com/jaysmoothtedx [Image: Screen cap from my Facebook post of the quotes with the link preview image of Jay Smooth on the Hampshire College TEDx stage] . . . #jaysmooth #tedx #perfectionism #imperfections #racism https://www.instagram.com/p/Bup6SSMHfJC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pioe2uer3vyh