You’ve heard it before: You shouldn’t let perfection get in the way of progress. But you also want to excel at work and perfection may seem like the best pathway for career growth. But perfection can ...

We all know perfection is an illusion. If perfection is unattainable and unrealistic, why do so many people strive to achieve it, setting themselves up for a perpetuating cycle of disappointment and ...

Roshni Ray Ricchetti was 16 years old when she arrived at MIT with perfect SAT scores and “lots and lots” of AP credits. She said her parents pushed her to make the absolute most of her talents. “I ...

Perhaps somewhere in your life, you had a teacher, a parent, or a sibling who placed unusually high demands on you. Asking, expecting, even demanding that you always do better or be better. Sometimes, ...

A new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality explains how unhealthy levels of perfectionism pass from parent to child. Long-time collaborators and lead authors of the research, ...

There are at least four different forms of perfectionism. Each of them results from self-deception that can cause a person to have a great deal of unhappiness in her life. Left unchecked, ...

Here's a quick test: If your teenage daughter makes a mistake in her written work does she cross it out; erase it and keep going; or does she rip out the whole page and start over. Does she do draft ...

Sure, saying you’re a perfectionist may sound good in a job interview, but does striving for perfection make you feel good about yourself? Studies show that constantly chasing the specter of ...

The term “Perfectionist”, according to the Oxford Dictionary, are people “who refuse to accept any standard short of perfection”. While this attribute may cause some to have an increased work ethic, ...