The Perfectionist’s Guide to Failing

Sometimes you just need to do a bad job. Here’s how.

Rae Nudson
Forge
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5 min readOct 23, 2018

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Just get it done, in all its iterations — just write 500 words, just run for 20 minutes, just send the email — usually seems like sound advice. And it can be when you’re procrastinating because you don’t want to do whatever it is. But sometimes the point when you actually sit down to do something is precisely when…

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Rae Nudson
Forge
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A freelance writer based in Chicago with bylines at the Cut, Hazlitt, Paste Magazine, and more. Working on a book for Beacon Press. rae.nudson@gmail.com