The Perfectionism Prison

You know enough English to get your point across. You've known enough for years. But you stay silent in meetings, rewrite emails six times, and rehearse phone calls in your head before dialing.

Here's the uncomfortable math: waiting until your English is "perfect" means waiting forever. Native speakers make grammar mistakes constantly — they just don't care. They say "me and him went" instead of "he and I went." They mix up "less" and "fewer." And the conversation rolls on.