“Perfectionismis a symptom of something,” Thomas Greenspon PhD, an expert on the topic and a recovering perfectionist himself, told me. “It’s not the disease.” At its core, perfectionism is about anxiety — you’re afraid of failing or afraid that making a mistake means that there’s...
Perfectionism can disguise itself as love.The truth is I was most perfectionistic during a time when I was the least loving toward myself. I now recognise that I was using perfectionism as a way of earning love from myself, instead of using self-loving kindness to steer myself toward a h...
It quite often produces the opposite to the intended effect and the person in question often ends up working even harder to prove them wrong.Academic burnout often goes hand in-hand with perfectionism and people's attempts to stop the person from working are merely seen as a challenge to ...
However, there were diminishing returns at high levels of other‐oriented perfectionism. The opposite was found amongst workers low in conscientiousness. Thus, we conclude that conscientiousness brings out a bright side of other‐oriented perfectionism....
It quite often produces the opposite to the intended effect and the person in question often ends up working even harder to prove them wrong. Academic burnout often goes hand-in-hand with perfectionism and people’s attempts to stop the person from working are merely seen as a challenge to ...
34. Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be your best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfect, look perfect, and act perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgment, and shame. It’s a ...
Learning to say ‘no’ is not selfish—it’s an act of self-respect. It allows you to protect your time and devote it to what truly matters to you. “By learning to say ‘no’, you can reclaim your time and bring more peace into your life.” Perfectionism is another trap I know ...
1.1. Perfectionism-performance relationship Differentiating PS and PC has proven fruitful as the dimensions often exert distinct effects on performance despite overlap and correlations of up to r = 0.70 (Stoeber & Gaudreau, 2017). PS positively predicts performance in various domains such as academic...
At best, you may just find that you have discovered something completely new and unexpected, through a flash of inspiration that you would have missed with perfectionism. Either way, your apparent missteps will have moved you a little closer to true mastery. 51. In Paragraph 1, the author ...
are playfulness, connection and flow. So by playfulness, I do not mean you have to play games, or, God forbid, make believe. I just mean having a lighthearted attitude of doing things for the sake of doing them and not caring too much about t...