Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Unhappy? You May Just Be a Perfectionist

From Lifehacker.com:

The New York Times takes a look at the culture of perfectionism, suggesting that the tenets of the perfectionist—when applied to things like personal relationships or when taken too far at the workplace—can take a serious toll on your happiness. As part of a study at U.C. Davis, employee assistance counselor Alice Provost forced perfectionists to:
Leave work on time. Don't arrive early. Take all the breaks allowed. Leave the desk a mess. Allow yourself a set number of tries to finish a job; then turn in what you have.
The results? Much to the surprise of the perfectionists, everything continued to function as usual, and much of their perfection-motivated worries weren't all that important.

Definitely not me but maybe it's one of yous out there.....

3 Comments:

Blogger Myong Choi said...

Ha! Is that meant for me, considering my most recent post?

Well, I am a Virgo and a Type B so I guess it makes sense! ^_^

9:11 PM  
Blogger Wayne's World said...

It's always about you! haha

10:12 PM  
Blogger Myong Choi said...

Of course it is! LOL

8:58 AM  

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