I'm a Perfectionist, Is That My Strength?

Why do we live inside a culture that kind of lionizes the perfectionistic person? And I think there's many reasons for it. You can go back to early clinical case notes, some master clinicians who talked about affectionism as a response to culture. So if we lean into that, we find ourselves gaining recognition and approval. But ultimately perfectionism is going to hold us back rather than pushing forward.

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