Excellence Isn't Happiness ebook

You've been taught that if you're just excellent enough, you'll be happy. Get the perfect body, perfect career, perfect relationship, and happiness will follow. This is a trap. Excellence and happiness are different pursuits, and pursuing one often destroys the other. This book teaches the hard truth: pursuing excellence at the expense of happiness is a bad trade. You'll learn that perfectionism is not the same as excellence, that excellence can be cold and unhappy, and that the happiest people are often people who've given up the pursuit of perfect. You'll discover that happiness comes from acceptance of good-enough, that joy lives in the messiness, and that letting go of perfection is often when life actually improves. For anyone exhausted from chasing excellence, this shows how to prioritize happiness instead.