Read Part I here. Health Effects of Perfectionism Indeed, as a personal quality of high achievers, perfectionism can often be used as a tool to transcend one’s limitations, but its effects can also be debilitating in the extreme. Take the example of the pianist...
Throughout the world, perfectionism is a personal quality that has been both idealized and denigrated in equal measure. Films such as “Amadeus” (1984) and “Shine” (1996) were both hugely successful meditations on the relationship between...