Thursday, September 25, 2003

Perfectionism now seems to be politically incorrect. It is treated as a psychological disorder in need of treatment! Getting things right has apparently become a bad thing! One can see that perfectionism -- like almost anything else -- could be overdone but giving the perfectionist something useful to do would be the only treatment that I would see as needed. NASA could do with a few more perfectionists.

The link above seems a bit erratic so the title of the book concerned is: Perfectionism: theory, research, and treatment. by Gordon L. Flett & Paul L. Hewitt (Eds.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association (2002).

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