you don’t rise to the level of your expectations, you fall to the level of your training. - Jim Kwik

Perfectionism reduces creativity and innovation,” writes Hara Estroff Marano, editor at large and the former editor in chief of Psychology Today. “It is a steady source of negative emotions; rather than reaching toward something positive, those in its grip are focused on the very thing they most want to avoid — negative evaluation. Perfectionism, then, is an endless report card; it keeps people completely self-absorbed, engaged in perpetual self-evaluation — reaping relentless frustration and doomed to anxiety and depression.

The London Taxi Cab Study provides a compelling example of the brain’s neuroplasticity, or ability to reorganize and transform itself as it is exposed to learning and new experiences. Having to constantly learn new routes in the city forced the taxi cab drivers’ brains to create new neural pathways. These pathways changed the structure and size of the brain, an amazing example of the limitless brain at work.

To sum it up, passion is what lights you up inside.