The perfection deception why striving to be perfect is sabotaging your relationships, making you sick, and holding your happiness hostage
Most people mistakenly confuse perfectionism with a healthy striving for excellence, but there is a big difference. One can lead to great achievement or great learning, by allowing us to take risks, make mistakes, and forge ahead anyway. The other is a psychological wound that invites constant compa...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Deerfield Beach, Florida :
Health Communications, Inc.,
[2015]
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| Summary: | Most people mistakenly confuse perfectionism with a healthy striving for excellence, but there is a big difference. One can lead to great achievement or great learning, by allowing us to take risks, make mistakes, and forge ahead anyway. The other is a psychological wound that invites constant comparison with others, and traps us with all-or-nothing thinking that can paralyze us in a cycle of indecision, fear, and self-loathing. In this eye-opening book, Dr. Jane Bluestein shows us the truth about perfectionism. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 299 pages : charts ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-299) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780757318252 (paperback) 0757318258 (paperback) |
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