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369: World leading expert on perfectionism, Thomas Curran — The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough

The Strategy Skills Podcast: Strategy | Leadership | Critical Thinking | Problem-Solving

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The Relationship Between Procrastination and Perfectionism

Perfectionists have a very strong aversion to failure. Failure is what peels back the veil, I suppose, on what's going on underneath the perfectionist impersonal. We're intently fearful of failure because it exposes that defective self we know we have. That intense worry about failure comes out in self-sabotaging behaviors.

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