The Effects of Perfectionism on Competitiveness

Perfectionists are intensely hyper competitive because perfectionism really is a social. It occurs not within the vacuum within us, but obviously in a social world. And so the way that we are able to calibrate our own sense of how successful we are and how good we are is to position ourselves relative to other people. So sport is a really interesting microcosm and a useful lab to study effects of perfection.