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  <description><![CDATA[Thank you, Jane, for this gift, that, I'm sure, will keep on giving each time I watch it. It was freeing, validating, and I could think of many stalled projects during. Especially timely with the current "crazy" project on my table. Back to work.]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[Jane, What a wonderful message about comparison and thief of joy. I think listening to a person who has made something is just as important as what they have made. The creating as you said is the joy. I think perfection is way over rated. Even if I never learn to knit,  I enjoy hearing how  something
 Is created . The process is so much the intriguing part of how and why something has been created. Thank you Jane. Louise]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[I was only thinking about this earlier in the week.  I was remembering how in the early 90s as a new parent, living in a small village where I knew no one, I put a card in the shop offering dressmaking, repairs and alterations.  One of the jobs I got was sewing name labels into school uniform (someone off to private school) and I had to embroider initials onto PE kit.  I'm sure I just got on with it, maybe consulted my sewing book.  Now I would have to scroll Pinterest and find all the beautiful samples, and find my skills lacking, and lots of self doubt.
I no longer have FB or Instagram, seriously considering ditching Pinterest too!]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[Thanks, Jane, for this incredible observation.
I never gave much, if any, thought to how intense, dishonest and pointless comparison was sapping my enjoyment of so many aspects of life.  As you said, modern devices and AI have pushed this pressure into the realm of the absurd.
Thinking about it now, it seems possible that the comparison trap could have started with good (though deeply misguided) intentions.
At first, in an attempt to get us to behave better, we’re compared to other young relatives and children who sport halos and wings and never get into trouble.  Later, at primary school, our teachers hold up examples of class work that illustrate both wonderful and shameful results (I suppose this was intended to spur the ‘failures’ on to better performance).  Thus, from a very early age, we’re taught to use comparison as a tool to better ourselves.  We go on to accept and use/misuse/overuse this tool throughout our lives.
Unfortunately, over time, for those who were never held up as glowing examples of anything, it can become a major, destructive element of self-image.
Even those who were always on the other end of this ridiculous practice would, eventually, come across others who were ‘better’… and wouldn’t know what hit them.]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[Thank you, Jane, for another well-thought out message. I was a quilting teacher for years and I used to tell my students that not every project needed to be finished-sacrilege-and done is better than perfect. The joy of doing and learning is what making is all about, in my opinion, although out latest technology refutes that.]]></description>
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