>This is exactly the mindset I'm trying to cultivate lately. I'm a person who stutters. I've been one since I was a child. Why do I feel the need to hide it or feign perfection? As I get older, I'm 35, it's bothering me more and more the amount of power I give to perceptions, whether it be mine or those of other people, true or false. It's embarrassing how much time I've wasted pretending to be "perfecting" even though I know I stutter, I've been doing it since I was a child, and either getting angry at myself or wanting to beat myself up for not being what I perceive I should be. > >By the way, your post sounds like a "Daily Stoic" email, but not in a bad way,