
Breaking Up with Perfectionism | WorkLife with Adam Grant
Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi
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Is There a Perfect Storm Going On?
High perfection young people is going to carry through with them as they age. As the economys shifted, and as it's become much tougher to move up, young people find themselves moving backwards. There's a lot of pressure in social media, mostly driven by the profit motive. Because i see making people feel miserable about themselves is really profitable. That's classic advertising tactics. And so all these things can be linked back to what we value as a society and and what our economy needs to thrive. It seems like in some ways, perfectionism is almost over determined. Any of these factors alone could be contributing. But we've got a bit of a perfect storm going here. I just called
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