The Rise of Perfectionism

What do we know about where perfectionism comes from, you know, how does it develop some people more prone to it than others? Yeah, I've been thinking about this question a lot because the data we have is correlational, it's not causal. We can look out into the world and make some speculative, but nevertheless, evidence-based claims. The first that I've identified in my book is excessive pressures to excel that have been placed on young people. Young people have bombarded with these kind of limitless images of perfection, perfect lives and lifestyles.