{"id":96011,"date":"2025-07-04T15:05:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=96011"},"modified":"2025-07-04T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:05:55","slug":"get-yourself-unstuck-overthinking-is-boring-and-perfectionism-is-a-trap-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/07\/04\/get-yourself-unstuck-overthinking-is-boring-and-perfectionism-is-a-trap-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Get yourself unstuck: overthinking is boring and perfectionism is a trap\u00a0[Thompson]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/campus\/get-yourself-unstuck-overthinking-boring-and-perfectionism-trap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Get yourself unstuck: overthinking is boring and perfectionism is a trap<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from timeshighereducation.com by David Thompson<br \/>\n<em>The work looks flawless, the student seems fine. But underneath, perfectionism is doing damage. David Thompson unpacks what educators can do to help high-performing students navigate the pressure to succeed and move from stuck to started<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">That\u2019s why I encourage imperfection, messiness and play and build these ideas into how I teach.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThese moments don\u2019t come from big breakthroughs. They come from removing pressure and replacing it with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get yourself unstuck: overthinking is boring and perfectionism is a trap\u00a0&#8212; from timeshighereducation.com by David Thompson The work looks flawless, the student seems fine. But underneath, perfectionism is doing damage. David Thompson unpacks what educators can do to help high-performing students navigate the pressure to succeed and move from stuck to started That\u2019s why I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,302,271,848,71,3,419,119,46,102,7,838,405,101,66,89,50,38,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-creativity","category-emotion","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-k-12-related","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-play","category-psychology","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-uk","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96013,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96011\/revisions\/96013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}