Katherine Morgan Schafler on perfectionism’s surprising gifts
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The Identity of a Perfectionist
Katherine: I think of my perfectionist tendencies as something to be fixed within me. How would you rethink that? Well, what's really interesting about having the identity of a perfectionist is that it's an enduring identity marker. And in the same way that I would never approach a romantic who perhaps needs to learn boundaries around love, relationships, the romanticism, et cetera,. Katherine: There's a whole branch of research that backs up and has for decades this notion of adaptive perfectionism.
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