IdeaLog Illumidate 05.25.04

I was talking with a guy the other day who was beating himself up over his sense of complete failure. As I listened to him I realized that his problem was not with his failures but with the extraordinarily high expectations he had for himself. He genuinely believed that he ought to be perfect. Listening to him I realized that it is possible to have such a lofty estimate of ourselves that we are rarely, if ever, pleased with ourselves.