What's the Most Surprising Finding About Perfectionism?

4min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

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.

Behavioral psychologist Thomas Curran reveals the science behind perfectionism and why it’s perfectly OK to be imperfect.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why perfectionism is not correlated with performance

2) The self-limiting beliefs underlying perfectionism

3) The tools to combat perfectionism

Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep749 for clickable versions of the links below.

— ABOUT THOMAS —

Thomas Curran is a British Psychological Society chartered social psychologist. His primary area of expertise is the personality characteristic of perfectionism, how it develops, and how it impacts on mental health. He is the author of over 30 published papers and book chapters on related topics and has received numerous awards for his scholarship and research.

Informed by his research and expertise in data analysis, he has previously lectured to undergraduates in the UK and Australia. He now teaches research methods and statistics units in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science.

• Twitter: @thom_curran

• Website: ThomasCurran.co.uk

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS (International Library of Psychology) by Karen Horney

• Book: The Neurotic Personality of Our Time by Karen Horney

— THANK YOU SPONSORS! —

• Lexus. Check out the lovely innovations in the all-new 2022 Lexus NX at https://lexus.com/nx

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.