756: Perfectionism: Solutions for all Five Types with Stephen Guise
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
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Depression, Suicide, Death, Perfectionism
There are numerous studies linking perfectionism to both depression and suicide. Anarexia, i would say, is the poster child of perfectionism. And then you have lighter things like just performance. Those a study on 51 undergraduate women found that those who tested highinperfectionism wrote passages that were judged significantly poorer than subjects low in perfectionism. Well, at least you get excellence, not exactly write.
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