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Breaking Up with Perfectionism | WorkLife with Adam Grant

Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi

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Is Perfectionism Burning Out?

When things are going well, perfectionism kind of keeps u tickin over and is not overly problematic. It can spur high performance under certain circumstances. But at work, there's rarely one right answer. As you get older, as performance outcome start to become more subjective and based on other factors rather than degrade metric, that's when things start to become difficult for perfection.

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