Love Mayim! I'm having my 10 year old daughter (who struggles with perfectionism) watch this as part of her homeschooling. 💚 So refreshing to have as someone to look up to!
Mary: Let me straighten your tie. Sheldon: No, no, no, it's all right. It's supposed to be a little asymmetrical. Apparently, a small flaw somehow improves it. Mary: I can see that. Sometimes it's the imperfect stuff that makes things perfect.
I will just quote Leonard: "Ring the bells that still ring, forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." :)
I am very impressed with you open and honesty you bring to the internet. I grew up watching you and enjoy seeing the kind compationate woman you are today.
Mayim, you are so real and open about your flaws. It makes me feel I am not alone. I know I am much younger to you and haven't even faced most of the situations you talk about yet I relate so much. Thank you for existing.
I grew up with the learning of never good enough....so with that I've had to undo all of it to realize I'm plenty good enough just as I am Which is why my screen name is Perfectly Imperfect 💞
You actually brought tears to my eyes. My father called me a “real dud” because I failed at something one time. Thankyou for helping me know it’s ok to make mistakes.❤️
Your message perfectly hits the mark, Mayim! It really resonated with me. We can still be 100% engaged in a task or activity without expecting absolute perfection. I’ve struggled, at times, with the notion of working with “no room for error”, yet the errors in our ways help us to learn, reinvent and drive forward! It’s okay for me to not be a perfect husband, father, employee and musician. All that I can do is to enjoy the process of learning and improving each and every day! Thanks so much, Scott
Been crying all morning because I feel so overwhelmed but watching this video just made my day. I can't stop smiling for 6 minutes and 40 seconds. I love your rational and your positivity! I love you Mayim! More videos please...
I am real glad that you embrace imperfection. That is exactly why I genuinely appreciate you, Mayim, as a person, over the character of Blossom! I never cared much for Blossom since she is so conceited & self-righteous. A couple of years ago, my friend told me that she appreciates you. I gradually then began to separate you and Blossom. I especially appreciate your down-to-earth authenticity and honest thoughts 💭 and feelings. 😀
I recently read a definition that perfect means “ whole or complete”. This has helped me to realize that I also don’t have to “do it perfectly” or be perfect because I am a work in progress - I’m not complete yet! Thank you for sharing this beautiful idea and video, it is very needed by all of us and very inspiring to be kinder to ourselves and get stuff done. I love the humorous way you do these videos on your channel, and make them real. You are the best! A million “thumbs up” to you!
As a recovering perfectionist, I find a great deal of comfort in your eloquent defense of imperfection. I hope I can finally start embracing imperfection in my life and start saving myself plenty of unnecessary grief. 29.5 years of perfectionism is 29.5 years too many, anyway. Thank you, Mayim. #AffectionForImperfection
This is going to be one of those videos I repeatedly watch. I was raised in a very perfectionistic household. It really caused me to have a much more perfectionistic nature. Thank you for this video!
You are the inspirational Queen 👸🏻! I’ve always thought I’m too imperfect and I began to have low self-esteem. Mayim, you’ve truly opened my eyes 👀 and I’m so grateful for that. I know I won’t be alone because there’ll be so many girls and women who will appreciate you for being truly inspiring. 🙂🦋✨
I definitely needed this today. I’m quite worried I’ll mess up during my orchestra concert today, but I need to move on and keep going even if I play a note as a sharp instead of a natural. Thanks for the message Mayim!
LOVE this!! I am not perfect and I don't want to be because that is what makes me different and I value differences in people. I think it makes life interesting.
Mayim you are such a kind person ! you played so well in MacGyver ! what a lightening to see the name BIALIK in the beginning of an episode . I love neuroscience too !! it gives me pleasure to learn it like learning Torah , because it is the נפלאות הבורא the wonder things that Hache created . Shabbat Shalom and Love from ISRAEL .
I know CZcams provides me with the illusion of connection and intimacy, but you, lady, have helped me through a dark place. I didn’t even watch BBT! But the things you’re going through, I’m going through. And so few 40-somethings talk like this, like me, like you. So thank you!!! (Not a crazy stalker btw, but loved you since you were THE Cece Bloom!)
Hello Ms. Bialik, I have admired your work and your intelligence for some time. When I viewed this video, I just had to reach out to let you know my appreciation. The concept of acceptance (of not being perfect) does truly free a person to get things done and be open for the next adventure. So many people tie themselves up in self-judgement about the minutest details that they miss the chance to enjoy their day. It is refreshing to know that someone of your stature and with your level of accomplishments is so down to earth. Please keep sharing your light and joy with the world. It will be a benefit for all of us. Best regards and ROCK ON, Rocky Heuft
Thank you for posting this today! It's exactly what I needed to hear! If you want proof that the universe leans toward chaos, come visit the home of someone suffering from depression. Today I will try to remember progress not perfection.
You remind me so much of my therapist. You are insightful in a way not many people are. Its truly a gift! Also the cat seriously made the video 1000x better I'm obsessed. Anyway, thanks for doing what you do!
Unfortunate that your message is SO important in our culture. But THANK YOU for the great way you explain the pro's and con's AND that not only is perfection unattainable but it is not a worthwhile goal. I have been obsessed about my appearance my WHOLE life. I hide the hatred/shame I feel about my physical attributes because I'm ashamed of feeling ashamed - how chaotic is THAT? So, Mayim, I am going to take your message with me and keep it playing in my head while out in the world. Just thinking about giving myself permission to be ordinary looking sounds incredible, light, relieving. All that weight gone so I can expend my energy on more interesting/productive things. Thank you! You're a gift to the world. Keep on sharing!
Love this! As they say in grad school: the best dissertation is a finished dissertation. And of course: don’t let the perfect get in the way of the good. Thanks for the reminder, Mayim!
Dr. Bialik: Love what you are doing with your site. First off, it's nice to have a celebrity not spewing politics at me. Secondly, you are doing good things for people. Your a good person and I'm willing to bet you'll win a Lifetime Achievement award for something someday.
I'm one of those people who wants to be perfect in just about everything I set out to do. And when I make a mistake, it's highly likely that I'll beat myself up over it. But after watching this video and listening to what my sister has told me, I'm learning that it's okay to be imperfect.
Love when cats make an appearance! And thank you for this video, it’s been an answer to my prayers! I need to tweak my life a bit, and this video made me aware of that! Thanks for the awareness I have been lacking for too long, and tips to go about living life with imperfections!
I just stumbled across your channel today, and my first thought was woah, that's really Blossom there.!! This reminds me of the episodes where you used to record monologues and talk to us on your television show as a child! I love the fact that your real life seems to mirror the character that you played as Blossom!❤❤ You're such an inspiration to watch!
I complemented you on something some people would see as less than perfect on another video and thanked you because it's nice to see a celebrity embracing imperfection because it made me accept myself more
I love imperfect celebrities. You're doing a real favor to the sisterhood by being real and not setting an impossible example to follow. I love you Mayim!!
Thank you for this video Mayim. Believe it or not, you just taught me something about myself that I couldn't figure out for the last 20 years. That something is the fact that, when I had to face a new challenge, experience or situation, if I didn't feel like coming out of it victorious, I would quit or just wouldn't do it. I was so afraid to fail, to disappoint my people, to be embarrassed about my performance... Thank you for putting in words my biggest flaw. Thank you for making me realise that acknowledging those flaws is the key to success, and the greatest pressure relief. You just changed somebody's life with this video Mayim. I'll be forever grateful. Love from Spain.
Hey Mayim, I know this is not exactly a comment for this video, but I just took my time off to binge the entire seasons of The Big Bang Theory, and man you were stellar. I literally fell in love with your character and now I doubt I suffer from 'The Fowler fictophilia' !. Any man would be happy to have a loving girl friend like Amy and really thank you from the bottom of my heart for playing the character cause you did more than justice to the character and the show. A true fan of you and Amy forever !
I would LOVE to have an actual conversation with you, about ANYTHING really!! I think that you are not only brilliant-which is obvious, but when I met you at one of those kid's movie premieres, walking next to you and your boys on the carpet I expressed that I admire you and what was your reply? You were REAL. And invited me to talk to you. You are an AMAZING person, and I was witness to your absolute DEVOTION to your children. ❤
P.S. I love your point that you get nothing done when aiming for perfection. That is exactly true with the perfectionist in me, who evokes procrastination. In the past year, an important lesson I grasped was to embrace optimization as a human being and let go of the desperation to be perfect!
Mayim can we please have MORE of that? Hearing these words was such a relief. We are living in a success and perfection oriented culture to the degree like never before. It is so unnatural and gives back nothing but stress. I was longing to embrace a new vision. #affectionforimperfection yay
Thank you Mayim. This gentle reminder is just what I needed to hear. BTW, I am a hairdresser with completely imperfect hair. Just so long as it is clean and out of my face, I am okay with however it decides to be on any given day. Your hair is great. On to the rest of our day!
You're right. If you wait to do something until you can do it perfectly with ZERO flaws, nothing would ever get done. So that's why, even though my attempts so far are not perfect, I dove into making simple Tarot card review videos. There's no editing because I can't edit, it's all in one take, and I'm slowly becoming accustomed to seeing myself on camera. In time, my videos will improve; I have ideas I'd like to manifest. But I realized that I couldn't just sit on the concept; I had to DO it - no matter how imperfectly. I was listening to Jonathan Haidt talk about how protecting kids from making mistakes does not serve them well. Bubble-wrapping them is a disservice; they need to learn how to deal with imperfections and mistakes and all that stuff, to basically toughen them up, teach them resourcefulness, and challenge them as they learn from making mistakes. And this really never stops all though life, does it?? :)
I sat here thinking you will help sooo many people with this video. I even thought of people to share it with. Then I realised, you have just helped me as well. I'm worth it too. Thankyou 💗💗💗💗💗
I just realized i might be a perfection freak. Just watching you describe how not to focus too much in things getting done or losing stuff... i felt so anxious!. I actually admire people who has the skill to let go. I have so much to learn. 🙌😊
Thank you Mayim for making this video. Your videos instantly cheer me up no matter how bad my day is going 😅 I really needed this video at this very moment. Please don’t ever stop making these videos ~ love from a confused tween
Yes, I also learnt the hard way that punishing myself for every tiny mistake I make. I hated myself for every word and every move, feeling I am not enough.
I couldn't enjoy your videos more. Thank you for planting of seed of respecting yourself for who you are in younger generations. That means a lot. As you said in one of the previous videos, now we have the millennials, who are too demanding to themselves, and maybe your attitude can help them to take it easier.
This is a really enlightening video on a topic I'm currently grappling with. I think you're correct. Changing my mindset and implementing this won't be easy for me but I think perfectionism, while having some benefits, has also definitely been detrimental in my life. I've liked this video so I can easily find it again and re-watch it as needed. Thanks Mayim!
Hi, Mayim! I'm late to the party with finding your awesome videos but am so happy I did. This one came to mind on my drive into work as I realized I forgot to put earrings in this morning ... I know, silly (stupid) issue - not even a 1st world problem. But, to be honest, there have been days something small like this has bothered me and set the tone for a really bad day. So, I was very excited when my second realization was "I'm not perfect and this isn't a big deal", which is mostly because you recently reminded me of this. So, thank you! And I hope you have an AMAZING day!
I agree thousnd percent to you! There is beauty and humility in imperfection. ❤i'd rather be imperfection than being perfectionist, because being perfectionist is hard, all the expecation from others is in you and besides no body is perfect So love your imperfection side! That is the important thing about you!❤ Ps: I've been waiting for your video! So glad You upload, lots of love xoxo.😘
Blast from the past, but you were my TA for a neuroscience class I took at UCLA back in 2001! I never mustered up the courage to say hello and ask for an autograph. I figured you were so over the whole Blossom phase by then. Anyway, hello!! And you’re awesome!
Mayim with all the love and respect your sovereign divinity deserves. In all of creation I've found only one flaw, man's idea or perfect. Keeping faith in my maker tells me that if its creation falls short of perfect to question my sight. Not its creations perfection.
Mayim, thank you for this video! It has made me appreciate and connect with you, as a person, more. To be honest, I did not care for Blossom’s character since I found her to be conceited & a know-it-all and hardly as mature as she said she was. However, I have come to separate you, Mayim, from your Blossom character and thus appreciate you as a down-to-earth, genuine human being.
@Claudia Matisse Well, Claudia, your written English is excellent! I’m sure you will be able to master it...just keep trying and do not ever give up 😊 God bless! 🙏
Regards from Italy my dear, I appreciate your videos, as a human being I believe that the maximum status we can have in this life is Excellence, I do believe that Perfection is a quality that belongs only to God and His Manifestations. Huge hug and have a great day.
I honestly don’t know if you read comments or if you’ll ever see this.. but I just want you to know that your CZcams channel is like a safe spot for me. I’m in college, going through some stuff, trying to figure my place out it life and I just feel lost. I’ve felt lost the last 20 years. I’m not close with my real mom, and I don’t have a ton of friends. I feel like my mind is constantly racing, and when I watch your videos they’re so calming, funny, informative & light hearted. Just what I need. So thank you, and I hope you never stop making CZcams videos, you’re an amazing actress as well! (Ps I wish I had a mom like you.) Emma, from Michigan!
Oh my! I definitely suffer from the need for perfection and I end up not doing things at all because I don’t think that I can do them perfect enough. I then get depressed because I feel so unaccomplished when I end up not doing the things🤦♀️ Thanks for this video!
As someone with an eating disorder, I really appreciated this video. I had to learn that 'perfection' isn't a real thing and to be honest you are one of the persons who taught me, Mayim. Your book Girling Up has made me realize I wasn't eating well. Perfection isn't real. It's okay to have flaws. Well, I can't ramble on forever. Lots of love from the Netherlands, Mayim! 💕 #affectionforimperfection
My ex was raised to believe that you should only do something if you can get it perfect. Needless to say, she's a tortured soul, and I've got the kids. In the IT world, where I once resided, the idea of good enough was important, as the lifecycle of software and hardware, inherently allowed changes and fixes along the way. As long as the core functions were provided for, you now had a framework/starting point for improvements. And your hair is just fine.
#AffectionForImperfection
Mayim Bialik gonna use this on twitter ;))
I love you so much😭 I am from Mexico, i wish i could meet you someday 💕
casandra v. Sameeee :(( I wanna meet her too even tho im from ph
@@christianejoie3670 You will meet her someday ❤
♥ needed it so much today
Perfection is what I was raised to achieve. Depression is what I achieved....perfectly. 😢
Anita Foster girl, same. 😢
Look for a therapist, going to therapy has changed my life and helped me live with depression
Anita, I hear a ya!!
Anita Foster Pobody’s Nerfect
Me too!
Love Mayim! I'm having my 10 year old daughter (who struggles with perfectionism) watch this as part of her homeschooling. 💚
So refreshing to have as someone to look up to!
Another homeschooler, yay! 😁🐨
You are one imperfect perfect lady who has stolen our heart😉
Mary: Let me straighten your tie.
Sheldon: No, no, no, it's all right. It's supposed to be a little asymmetrical. Apparently, a small flaw somehow improves it.
Mary: I can see that. Sometimes it's the imperfect stuff that makes things perfect.
Legs of Octopus • Food & Lifestyle them he makes the discovery and wins the Nobel prize - 😮😮🎉🎉🎉
Who's Mary?
Akward Anya his mom
@@tholodryha Thank you!
Akward Anya you’re welcome 😊
I loved her cat just watching her!! So many hearts!!
I will just quote Leonard: "Ring the bells that still ring, forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." :)
I adore that poem Adele Tante!!thank you for sharing that!!😉
Hahah thats awesome. Im def stealing that and putting on my wall :)
I am very impressed with you open and honesty you bring to the internet. I grew up watching you and enjoy seeing the kind compationate woman you are today.
You just made a breakthrough that my therapist has been trying to get me to see for a while. I'm posting notes to remind me of this. Thank You!
Mayim, you are so real and open about your flaws. It makes me feel I am not alone. I know I am much younger to you and haven't even faced most of the situations you talk about yet I relate so much.
Thank you for existing.
Young people should be around many different generations...each have lessons on life...just tweak the lesson to your life.
This brought me to tears. I really needed to hear this. Thank you, Mayim💗
MAYIM HAS A KITTY! Another reason (of many!) to love her!
I grew up with the learning of never good enough....so with that I've had to undo all of it to realize I'm plenty good enough just as I am
Which is why my screen name is Perfectly Imperfect 💞
You actually brought tears to my eyes. My father called me a “real dud” because I failed at something one time. Thankyou for helping me know it’s ok to make mistakes.❤️
Mistakes are how you learn.
I'm with you on perfectly living imperfect and I agree there is no perfection! 😄
I like how it aligns with TBBT's final season of super asymetry. Like amy said: "maybe it is perfect the way it is." Keep up the good work Mayim!
Perfection is boring !!! It's our flaws that make us interesting ! And there is no such thing as " NORMAL " ! Love your video's Mayim !
Thanks Mayim, I needed to hear this today!
Your message perfectly hits the mark, Mayim! It really resonated with me. We can still be 100% engaged in a task or activity without expecting absolute perfection. I’ve struggled, at times, with the notion of working with “no room for error”, yet the errors in our ways help us to learn, reinvent and drive forward!
It’s okay for me to not be a perfect husband, father, employee and musician. All that I can do is to enjoy the process of learning and improving each and every day!
Thanks so much,
Scott
Still an amazing mom and a fantastic woman! You’re amazing, don’t need to be perfect, just thankful you inspire❤️
Been crying all morning because I feel so overwhelmed but watching this video just made my day. I can't stop smiling for 6 minutes and 40 seconds. I love your rational and your positivity! I love you Mayim! More videos please...
Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe....
I am real glad that you embrace imperfection. That is exactly why I genuinely appreciate you, Mayim, as a person, over the character of Blossom!
I never cared much for Blossom since she is so conceited & self-righteous. A couple of years ago, my friend told me that she appreciates you. I gradually then began to separate you and Blossom.
I especially appreciate your down-to-earth authenticity and honest thoughts 💭 and feelings. 😀
I recently read a definition that perfect means “ whole or complete”. This has helped me to realize that I also don’t have to “do it perfectly” or be perfect because I am a work in progress - I’m not complete yet! Thank you for sharing this beautiful idea and video, it is very needed by all of us and very inspiring to be kinder to ourselves and get stuff done. I love the humorous way you do these videos on your channel, and make them real. You are the best! A million “thumbs up” to you!
As a recovering perfectionist, I find a great deal of comfort in your eloquent defense of imperfection. I hope I can finally start embracing imperfection in my life and start saving myself plenty of unnecessary grief. 29.5 years of perfectionism is 29.5 years too many, anyway. Thank you, Mayim. #AffectionForImperfection
This is going to be one of those videos I repeatedly watch. I was raised in a very perfectionistic household. It really caused me to have a much more perfectionistic nature. Thank you for this video!
Your videos are a breath of fresh air. They help with my heartbreak!
You are the inspirational Queen 👸🏻! I’ve always thought I’m too imperfect and I began to have low self-esteem. Mayim, you’ve truly opened my eyes 👀 and I’m so grateful for that. I know I won’t be alone because there’ll be so many girls and women who will appreciate you for being truly inspiring. 🙂🦋✨
So many of us say this, and it’s because it’s true: you’re awesome. Thanks for the much-needed reminder, Mayim. So helpful. So calming.
Being ok with imperfection makes for a lot less stress and more shalom. Perfectionist will never have shalom.
Oh Gods, Yes!!! Thank you!! This is my new Affection for Imperfection!!
I am the least perfect person, thank you for the new video.
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Michael Martinez Pobody’s Nerfect
With regard to housekeeping, my house doesn't have to be perfect. As long as it looks lived in and not died in, that's good enough!
Perfection: is the belief that we can act, look and behave perfectly so we can minimize criticism, judgment and blame.
Thanks For a great video 💕
I definitely needed this today. I’m quite worried I’ll mess up during my orchestra concert today, but I need to move on and keep going even if I play a note as a sharp instead of a natural. Thanks for the message Mayim!
LOVE this!! I am not perfect and I don't want to be because that is what makes me different and I value differences in people. I think it makes life interesting.
Mayim you are such a kind person ! you played so well in MacGyver ! what a lightening to see the name BIALIK in the beginning of an episode . I love neuroscience too !! it gives me pleasure to learn it like learning Torah , because it is the נפלאות הבורא the wonder things that Hache created . Shabbat Shalom and Love from ISRAEL .
I know CZcams provides me with the illusion of connection and intimacy, but you, lady, have helped me through a dark place. I didn’t even watch BBT! But the things you’re going through, I’m going through. And so few 40-somethings talk like this, like me, like you. So thank you!!! (Not a crazy stalker btw, but loved you since you were THE Cece Bloom!)
Hello Ms. Bialik,
I have admired your work and your intelligence for some time. When I viewed this video, I just had to reach out to let you know my appreciation.
The concept of acceptance (of not being perfect) does truly free a person to get things done and be open for the next adventure. So many people tie themselves up in self-judgement about the minutest details that they miss the chance to enjoy their day.
It is refreshing to know that someone of your stature and with your level of accomplishments is so down to earth. Please keep sharing your light and joy with the world. It will be a benefit for all of us.
Best regards and ROCK ON,
Rocky Heuft
Thank you for posting this today! It's exactly what I needed to hear! If you want proof that the universe leans toward chaos, come visit the home of someone suffering from depression. Today I will try to remember progress not perfection.
That's exactly how I live my life, enjoying the imperfections of the world around me 😋 Saludos Mayim 😋
You remind me so much of my therapist. You are insightful in a way not many people are. Its truly a gift! Also the cat seriously made the video 1000x better I'm obsessed. Anyway, thanks for doing what you do!
Unfortunate that your message is SO important in our culture.
But THANK YOU for the great way you explain the pro's and con's AND that not only is perfection unattainable but it is not a worthwhile goal. I have been obsessed about my appearance my WHOLE life. I hide the hatred/shame I feel about my physical attributes because I'm ashamed of feeling ashamed - how chaotic is THAT? So, Mayim, I am going to take your message with me and keep it playing in my head while out in the world. Just thinking about giving myself permission to be ordinary looking sounds incredible, light, relieving. All that weight gone so I can expend my energy on more interesting/productive things.
Thank you! You're a gift to the world. Keep on sharing!
Love this! As they say in grad school: the best dissertation is a finished dissertation. And of course: don’t let the perfect get in the way of the good. Thanks for the reminder, Mayim!
Dr. Bialik: Love what you are doing with your site. First off, it's nice to have a celebrity not spewing politics at me. Secondly, you are doing good things for people. Your a good person and I'm willing to bet you'll win a Lifetime Achievement award for something someday.
I'm one of those people who wants to be perfect in just about everything I set out to do. And when I make a mistake, it's highly likely that I'll beat myself up over it. But after watching this video and listening to what my sister has told me, I'm learning that it's okay to be imperfect.
Love when cats make an appearance! And thank you for this video, it’s been an answer to my prayers! I need to tweak my life a bit, and this video made me aware of that! Thanks for the awareness I have been lacking for too long, and tips to go about living life with imperfections!
I just stumbled across your channel today, and my first thought was woah, that's really Blossom there.!! This reminds me of the episodes where you used to record monologues and talk to us on your television show as a child! I love the fact that your real life seems to mirror the character that you played as Blossom!❤❤ You're such an inspiration to watch!
I complemented you on something some people would see as less than perfect on another video and thanked you because it's nice to see a celebrity embracing imperfection because it made me accept myself more
I love imperfect celebrities. You're doing a real favor to the sisterhood by being real and not setting an impossible example to follow. I love you Mayim!!
You are so awesome Mayim!!!! Thank you being you! 🤗🤗🤗
Mayim Bialik your a brilliant, amazing, magnificent woman.
Thank you for this video Mayim. Believe it or not, you just taught me something about myself that I couldn't figure out for the last 20 years.
That something is the fact that, when I had to face a new challenge, experience or situation, if I didn't feel like coming out of it victorious, I would quit or just wouldn't do it.
I was so afraid to fail, to disappoint my people, to be embarrassed about my performance...
Thank you for putting in words my biggest flaw.
Thank you for making me realise that acknowledging those flaws is the key to success, and the greatest pressure relief.
You just changed somebody's life with this video Mayim.
I'll be forever grateful.
Love from Spain.
Hey Mayim, I know this is not exactly a comment for this video, but I just took my time off to binge the entire seasons of The Big Bang Theory, and man you were stellar. I literally fell in love with your character and now I doubt I suffer from 'The Fowler fictophilia' !. Any man would be happy to have a loving girl friend like Amy and really thank you from the bottom of my heart for playing the character cause you did more than justice to the character and the show. A true fan of you and Amy forever !
I think you are so smart and charming! Love your content, keep it coming!
Imperfection and change are the 2 best things to embrace in life! xoxo
Save perfection for nature - love who you are as you are!
My 6yo can quote the adage that perfect is the enemy of good enough.
Aiming for perfection is often-times a waste of resources.
I think your gorgeous and wonderful! DON'T EVER stop being you.
I would LOVE to have an actual conversation with you, about ANYTHING really!! I think that you are not only brilliant-which is obvious, but when I met you at one of those kid's movie premieres, walking next to you and your boys on the carpet I expressed that I admire you and what was your reply? You were REAL. And invited me to talk to you. You are an AMAZING person, and I was witness to your absolute DEVOTION to your children. ❤
P.S. I love your point that you get nothing done when aiming for perfection. That is exactly true with the perfectionist in me, who evokes procrastination.
In the past year, an important lesson I grasped was to embrace optimization as a human being and let go of the desperation to be perfect!
Mayim can we please have MORE of that? Hearing these words was such a relief. We are living in a success and perfection oriented culture to the degree like never before. It is so unnatural and gives back nothing but stress. I was longing to embrace a new vision. #affectionforimperfection yay
mayim please do a ted talk. i absolutely adore these kinds of videos, and your point of views are so interesting. LOVE YOU
Don't u think its a kind of promotion video...
Oh Mayim, you're amazing! Not perfect, but really close...thanks a lot for every idea you share and your honest humanity!!
Thank you Mayim. This gentle reminder is just what I needed to hear. BTW, I am a hairdresser with completely imperfect hair. Just so long as it is clean and out of my face, I am okay with however it decides to be on any given day. Your hair is great. On to the rest of our day!
You're right. If you wait to do something until you can do it perfectly with ZERO flaws, nothing would ever get done. So that's why, even though my attempts so far are not perfect, I dove into making simple Tarot card review videos. There's no editing because I can't edit, it's all in one take, and I'm slowly becoming accustomed to seeing myself on camera. In time, my videos will improve; I have ideas I'd like to manifest. But I realized that I couldn't just sit on the concept; I had to DO it - no matter how imperfectly.
I was listening to Jonathan Haidt talk about how protecting kids from making mistakes does not serve them well. Bubble-wrapping them is a disservice; they need to learn how to deal with imperfections and mistakes and all that stuff, to basically toughen them up, teach them resourcefulness, and challenge them as they learn from making mistakes. And this really never stops all though life, does it?? :)
Who has time for perfection? Definitely not me 😅
I sat here thinking you will help sooo many people with this video. I even thought of people to share it with.
Then I realised, you have just helped me as well. I'm worth it too.
Thankyou 💗💗💗💗💗
MY LIFE = PERFECT CHAOS!! Love the outlook. 💗💗💗
I just realized i might be a perfection freak. Just watching you describe how not to focus too much in things getting done or losing stuff... i felt so anxious!. I actually admire people who has the skill to let go. I have so much to learn. 🙌😊
Good to see her moving on with her life..she can become a big internet/CZcams star.
Thank you Mayim for making this video. Your videos instantly cheer me up no matter how bad my day is going 😅 I really needed this video at this very moment. Please don’t ever stop making these videos ~ love from a confused tween
Yes, I also learnt the hard way that punishing myself for every tiny mistake I make. I hated myself for every word and every move, feeling I am not enough.
I couldn't enjoy your videos more. Thank you for planting of seed of respecting yourself for who you are in younger generations. That means a lot. As you said in one of the previous videos, now we have the millennials, who are too demanding to themselves, and maybe your attitude can help them to take it easier.
This is a really enlightening video on a topic I'm currently grappling with. I think you're correct. Changing my mindset and implementing this won't be easy for me but I think perfectionism, while having some benefits, has also definitely been detrimental in my life. I've liked this video so I can easily find it again and re-watch it as needed. Thanks Mayim!
my goshhh your cat is making me cry, she's so adorable and squishy 🥺🥺🥺🥺
Hi, Mayim! I'm late to the party with finding your awesome videos but am so happy I did. This one came to mind on my drive into work as I realized I forgot to put earrings in this morning ... I know, silly (stupid) issue - not even a 1st world problem. But, to be honest, there have been days something small like this has bothered me and set the tone for a really bad day. So, I was very excited when my second realization was "I'm not perfect and this isn't a big deal", which is mostly because you recently reminded me of this. So, thank you! And I hope you have an AMAZING day!
I agree thousnd percent to you! There is beauty and humility in imperfection. ❤i'd rather be imperfection than being perfectionist, because being perfectionist is hard, all the expecation from others is in you and besides no body is perfect So love your imperfection side! That is the important thing about you!❤
Ps: I've been waiting for your video! So glad You upload, lots of love xoxo.😘
It is a relief to know I don't have to be perfect. Near enough is good enough for me.
Girl,I’ve PERFECTED imperfection!!😉
Blast from the past, but you were my TA for a neuroscience class I took at UCLA back in 2001! I never mustered up the courage to say hello and ask for an autograph. I figured you were so over the whole Blossom phase by then. Anyway, hello!! And you’re awesome!
I'm a perfectionist learning to let go and just go with the flow of life more. Loved it. Thank you.
You are intelligent, articulate, and, yes, beautiful. This 69yr old wishes she had someone like you to look up to back in the '60s.
Mayim with all the love and respect your sovereign divinity deserves. In all of creation I've found only one flaw, man's idea or perfect.
Keeping faith in my maker tells me that if its creation falls short of perfect to question my sight. Not its creations perfection.
Mayim, thank you for this video! It has made me appreciate and connect with you, as a person, more.
To be honest, I did not care for Blossom’s character since I found her to be conceited & a know-it-all and hardly as mature as she said she was.
However, I have come to separate you, Mayim, from your Blossom character and thus appreciate you as a down-to-earth, genuine human being.
My favorite favorite video of yours (except those who are Big Bang Theory related which I will miss to an extreme amount)! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I definitely have to improve my English for you. Understanding the speed you speak will be a challenge for me. I love you. 🙏
@Claudia Matisse Well, Claudia, your written English is excellent! I’m sure you will be able to master it...just keep trying and do not ever give up 😊 God bless! 🙏
@@maggiemay3108 Oh! Thank you. 🙏
@Claudia Matisse you are very welcome ❤️
@@maggiemay3108 God bless you. 🙏
Regards from Italy my dear, I appreciate your videos, as a human being I believe that the maximum status we can have in this life is Excellence, I do believe that Perfection is a quality that belongs only to God and His Manifestations. Huge hug and have a great day.
I honestly don’t know if you read comments or if you’ll ever see this.. but I just want you to know that your CZcams channel is like a safe spot for me. I’m in college, going through some stuff, trying to figure my place out it life and I just feel lost. I’ve felt lost the last 20 years. I’m not close with my real mom, and I don’t have a ton of friends. I feel like my mind is constantly racing, and when I watch your videos they’re so calming, funny, informative & light hearted. Just what I need. So thank you, and I hope you never stop making CZcams videos, you’re an amazing actress as well! (Ps I wish I had a mom like you.)
Emma, from Michigan!
Oh my! I definitely suffer from the need for perfection and I end up not doing things at all because I don’t think that I can do them perfect enough. I then get depressed because I feel so unaccomplished when I end up not doing the things🤦♀️ Thanks for this video!
Hey! Just wanted to say I saw you in the IBM commercial! Keep doing what you're doing ✊
Why isn’t this trending? this should be trending
Come on Mayim! Nobody is perfect. Thanks God! We are unique and totally imperfects🤗 I think that makes the difference! I love being unique😊 don't you?
This is why I love Mayim she's sweet, funny talented and hilarious and she's Brilliant.
As someone with an eating disorder, I really appreciated this video. I had to learn that 'perfection' isn't a real thing and to be honest you are one of the persons who taught me, Mayim. Your book Girling Up has made me realize I wasn't eating well.
Perfection isn't real. It's okay to have flaws.
Well, I can't ramble on forever.
Lots of love from the Netherlands, Mayim! 💕
#affectionforimperfection
Everybody has flaws!! No one is perfectl!! But we are each of us perfectly ourselves. 💖💖💖
My ex was raised to believe that you should only do something if you can get it perfect. Needless to say, she's a tortured soul, and I've got the kids. In the IT world, where I once resided, the idea of good enough was important, as the lifecycle of software and hardware, inherently allowed changes and fixes along the way. As long as the core functions were provided for, you now had a framework/starting point for improvements. And your hair is just fine.
Well said! 🙌 I'm sending this to our 18 year old daughter and ALL her girl friends!
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As a Virgo, your concept is both intriguing and frightening. Thank you!
Greetings from Quito Ecuador. Thank You for sharing. Nothing is perfect. Nada es perfecto. Love all your videos. 👼. Affection for imperfecttion
I am so happy I found your channel. This is amazing, I love you!