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749: How to Break Free from Perfectionism with Dr. Thomas Curran

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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What's the Most Surprising Finding About Perfectionism?

Perfectionism has very little correlation with performance, ok? Neither good nor bad. What we to be defind is that there isn't one. And that's a consistent finding by the wa sefen as found across many, many studies. Soe typically see its perfectionists will try really hard in the first attempt, but if they fail, then they hold it back on the second attempt and so on. It might bet these things have an natual rlike, negative impact on you. I think something like that might be going on. There's another and i think more convincing theory, which is essentially that perfection is actually hold back t they don't put it forward.

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