34 — Stop Being a Perfectionist and Embrace Y...

Your brain lies to you. It insists the meeting will go badly, that your friend’s silence means they're mad, and that a rough interview means you blew everything. The good news is you don’t have to believe everything you think. In this episode, I’m sharing the four types of though ...  Show more

What if the thing that’s making you feel distant in your closest relationship isn’t actually about your partner — it’s about a pattern you learned when you were seven? Most of us don’t realize how much of our adult love life is shaped by the way we adapted to our childhood. The a ...  Show more

In today’s episode, we tackle perfectionism with Thomas Curran. Thomas is an associate professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioral Science at the London School of Economics, and the author of The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough. We tackle the ...  Show more

In job interviews and in life, perfectionism is often seen as a selling point – an asset disguised as a flaw. But as psychologists have found rising rates of perfectionism in the United States and around the world in recent decades, they’ve begun to recognize the toll that the dr ...  Show more

Most of us know perfectionism as the relentless pursuit of flawlessness, our fatal flaw of having a constant need to meet impossibly high standards. It's a trait that many of us strive for, believing that it will lead to success and happiness. But what if I told you that this con ...  Show more