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The Concept Of Perfectionism
Patricia Grabb
12/14/00
The Concept of Perfectionism
Do you push yourself to be the best? Do you get mad at yourself for not doing the best? Do you delay assignments till the last possible limit because of fear of rejection? Do you feel horrible when work isn't done to your best ability of when minor failures seem like catastrophic ones? These are all signs of what is known as perfectionism (Pacht 1984). If you seem to agree with most of these things then you might be a perfectionist. According to Webster's dictionary, it states that perfectionism is "a disposition which regards anything less than perfect, unacceptable." Many people in the
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