Just Talk
Welcome back, if you are new here welcome. I am your host Don, and for today\u2019s episode I am going off script.\nForewarning, I am going to be all over the place today, I\u2019d like to talk about a few things today that are centered around the following topics.\n\n Careers\n Jobs\n Gigs\n Freelance work\n Education\n Being a student\n Self advocacy\n And hobbies.\n\nLets get into it.\nWhich are all categories that encompasses the work part of work and life. You know the other 75% of what we do in order to have a life.\nThis episode is for everyone, and it is especially for the overachievers, the perfectionists, the workaholics.\nThere has been a rise in perfectionism over the past 4 decades now. There was a study done by Thomas Curran and Andrew Hill called Perfectionism Is Increasing Over Time: A Meta-Analysis of Birth Cohort Differences From 1989 to 2016. Long story short they found that perfectionism has been on a rise since the 80s.\nAccording to research published by the American Psychological Association the drive to be perfect has increased and has had an impact in physical and mental health.\nEveryone I know is a perfectionist in their own right.\nI am a perfectionist. I have a criteria or standards in which everything I produce have to meet personally and professionally m. Now over the teas I\u2019ve come to terms with the fact that not everything will meet those standards so I\u2019ve become a little more lenient with putting out what I produce and accepting it as good enough but that took years and I am still struggling with it.\nTypes of Perfectionism\nPerfectionism comes in three common flavors \u2014 \u201cself-oriented,\u201d where someone demands perfection from themselves; \u201cother-oriented,\u201d where they demand perfection from others around them (like spouses, co-workers or friends), and \u201csocially prescribed\u201d perfectionism, where the person feels external pressure from the larger world and society to be perfect.\nhttps://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/11/27/20975989/perfect-mental-health-perfectionism