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“Perfectionism is a trait characterized by a person’s striving for flawlessness and setting impossibly high standards, accompanied by critical self-evaluations and concerns regarding others’ evaluations.” Is this you?
The talk and primer on perfectionism will help you to:
Speaker: Dr. Tarique Sani is a psychotherapist, paediatrician, forensic expert, PHP geek, photographer, cyclist, and currently a runner.
Submitted Mar 22, 2021
Perfectionism is a personality trait characterized by a person’s striving for flawlessness and setting impossibly high standards accomplished by critical self-evaluations and concerns regarding others’ evaluations. The key component of perfectionism is basing your self-worth on other people’s evaluations of yourself.
The components of perfectionism are:
Striving for excellence is different from being a perfectionist. Here, the key difference is that perfectionism is not contextual. Perfectionism is not contextual because no achievement is ever enough. You continuously blame yourself if things aren’t done right. In this way, perfectionism invades your life, leaving you with no free time. You continue to work harder and harder, assuming that you will be more accepted by others if you achieve high standards. This results in fear of starting a new task or project because you are afraid of failure. Consequently, perfectionism feeds procrastination.
Perfectionism also results in failure to delegate. You are not only critical of your work; you also start criticizing other people’s work if the work is not done your way.
You may be a perfectionist in one or two areas of your life. These include:
Perfectionism is reinforced by perfectionist behaviours. Identify which of these behaviours are part of your personality:
If you have questions about perfectionism, post them in comments on https://hasgeek.com/kilter/overcoming-perfectionism/comments
Tarique Sani’s slides on perfectionism are available on https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yjjdkn0nSqDGG-thm-j_FC7Ev6njWfhMSiq9IU1HJiU/edit?usp=sharing
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