Here, Curran shares five key insights from his new book, The Perfection Trap: The Power of Good Enough in a World That Always Wants More. Listen to the audio version—read by Curran himself—in the Next ...

You’re probably under pressure at work. Work keeps getting faster, more urgent, and more demanding. And it’s natural to want to do your best. But striving to be perfect can wreak havoc on your mental ...

Perfectionism may be the most common, almost universal disguise of anger. I had been raised with the idea that it was a virtue, and this perception was dramatically reinforced during my medical ...

Like much else, perfectionism exists on a spectrum. On the one end is absolute perfectionism, where the individual needs to be perfect in everything that seems to be valuable in whichever community ...