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It has often been an ‘in-joke’ that an interviewer asks a candidate ‘and can you tell me if you have any weaknesses’ and the interviewee states ‘well, only that I’m a bit of a perfectionist, but I’m working on it’. The point being that the interviewee mistakenly thinks that being a perfectionist is a positive trait. Actually, it has a cost to everyone the perfectionist comes into contact with. It’s not a help; it’s a hindrance, a dysfunction and an inhibitor.
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Hughes, R., Kinder, A., Cooper, C.L. (2019). The Myths of Perfectionism. In: The Wellbeing Workout. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92552-3_14
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