The Dangers of Perfectionism

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People feel increasingly that they have to be perfect in order to survive. The self esteem movement, which has its kind of roots in all this humanistic psychology, people think that deep down there often do itself as perfect anyway. And it's just not true and it's incredibly toxic. We're still living in this neoliberal environment where we're telling people, you can be anything you want to be - the world is your oyster.

Will Storr, an award-winning journalist and novelist, joins us for this episode of The Unmistakable Creative. Will takes us on a journey through the history of 'self'. He explains how early human societies are responsible for much of how we live in the modern-day world. Why have we become so self-obsessed and what is it doing to us? The irony is that we’d love to know and Will has an answer at will blow your mind.

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