<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/magazine/summer-2010/learning-live-imperfection.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Learning to Live with Imperfection</title><excerpt>When Kristin Rushforth Ritzau ’04 leads retreats for women she includes an art project as an exercise. “A lot of people crumple up and throw away their first efforts,” she says. “Most of them think they can’t be creative and meet their own standards — or the culture’s. This is especially true for perfectionists, who need to make everything perfect, or they won’t do it.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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