Is perfectionism an illness? | LSE Research

In a competitive culture that values work ethic and merit, is perfectionism a benign trait that helps us succeed, or is it a pernicious illness we need to take more seriously?

Dr Tom Curran from LSE’s Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science researches perfectionism, its damaging effects, and why society is making it more prevalent.

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[helena]

I was never a perfectionist until my late teens. It was a trauma response and I ended up developing OCD at university.

[Hak]

Although there’s some far fetched comments in this video, I actually enjoyed the bite size content. Reminded me of the videos by Alain De Botton for The School of Life.

PBS should do more of these

[lordmalevor]

𝗟𝗲𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.





One day, a wise and prolific vase maker decided to separate his class into 2 groups for 1 month.
1 group was tasked with trying to make the one most perfect vase they possibly could, while group #2 was tasked with making one vase a day, no matter how bad it was.





1 month later, the wise vase maker stood in front of his pupils, and examined their vases. To the surprise of almost everyone, the last vases of group 2 were ALL BETTER than those of group 1. What does this tell you? 𝙁𝙖𝙞𝙡 𝙤𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧.

[ttorianderson]

why has there been made a direction correlation between patents and innovation?

[watchit]

Before taking it seriously we probably need some way of measuring how much perfectionist we are, moderate or extreme. I believe that we need some perfectionism in our lives.

[watchit]

How is it this guy is arguing against and for what Boris Johnson said at the same time

[dariusthurman]

Welfare does not make people more entrepreneurial, it just enables laziness.

[Ironswiftness]

Clicked a mental health vid and it became political