Healthy ways to recognize and manage your perfectionism. To understand how to manage perfectionism, you first need to know what drives it.
Usually, we wind up as perfectionists when this behavior is modeled regularly by our parents or caretakers and when they consistently push us to be perfect.
It’s important to recognize that, in most cases, they wanted us to do well because they loved us and, most likely, had no idea that trying to shape us into flawless beings could possibly do us any harm.
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