Perfectionists run a risk: discovering only after launch that the product you’ve honed isn’t a fit with your market.

Like a greedy and insatiable child, OCD demands more proof in its pursuit of perfect certainty, placing unreasonable demands ...

New psychological research suggests that the drive for perfection may be the dangerous bridge connecting narcissism to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. It’s wrong to assume that striving for perfectionism is inherently bad. It’s often healthy for artists, athletes, and many service ...

We asked therapists and researchers for the best books on learning to let go. By Hope Reese Mollie Candib, a therapist in New York City, was seeing a client who was under enormous stress. He was an ...

Perfectionism by itself isn’t a diagnostic category. It’s associated with various mental health diagnoses. In particular, it’s often linked with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). BPD is marked by ...

Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. Psychotherapist Katherine ...

Of course, we’re all shackled by perfectionism to some extent. Those last three statements were pulled from my own perfectionistic self-talk. In a world of carefully crafted profiles and photoshopped ...

Depending on who you ask, people may consider perfectionism to be a strength or a weakness. Throughout my time as an excellence-seeking perfectionist (meaning I have a high level of standards for ...

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, ...

The squeeze to succeed comes from everywhere: parents, teachers, advertisements, social media – even our friends. And it starts early: We’re told from the time we can talk what slang we should use, ...

In September 2020, a male perfectionism scholar had his assistant tell me he would “not be available for further interviews” after I got a time difference wrong. I had all five kids in my blended ...