Maladaptive Perfectionism
June 25th, 2008Evidently there are good and bad flavors of perfectionism. Learning this was eye opening because I always thought that perfectionism across the board was bad. Perfectionism that is based on what others think is mal-adaptive. In other words, it can’t adapt to your expectations of their expectations, ever.
Adaptive perfectionism(the good one) is the type that learns from others, and is continually improved by ones own vision of perfection, knowing that it will never be fully achieved, but always held as the target.
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The subject is interesting and merits more study. Here is a neat article on the subject