My teenage daughter and I both struggle with perfectionism and we've been trying to work on it together by being more honest about our failures, but somehow this has turned into a competition about who messes up more authentically and it's exhausting both of us.
More people experience this than they realize.
The attempt to collectively address perfectionism has generated a subtle new form of the same pattern.
“Where Are You with Note-taking philosophies?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.