• April 27, 2024

If you take a long time to deliver a job and check every detail before submitting it, you may be a perfectionist, but is this good or bad for your quality of life?

In an interview for GetQoralHealtho, psychologist Paola Hamui, specialist of the Patient Assistance Clinic of the Psychoanalytic Society of Mexico (SPM) , points out that perfectionism is good at moderate levels, that is, when the priority of what the person does is not lost.

However, when a perfectionist touches the levels of exaggeration, it becomes a pathology, which represents the non-acceptance of oneself.

"Perfectionist people do everything to the extreme to be accepted by others and to accept oneself. Individuals like this have low self-esteem, "says Paola Hamui.

Do not stay in the details and forget the stress!

The specialist says that for the perfectionist there will always be a doubt if he can do things better than they did. "They usually stay in the details, so they run the risk of delivering a job at the wrong time, that is, they lose the global vision of things."

"The perfectionist, although he tries too hard, never feels that it is enough and this causes him a lot of anxiety, because he will feel that something did not go well," says the psychologist.

To avoid this affecting and reduce your productivity and your self-esteem, Paola Hamui offers you the following tips:

1. Determine priorities
2. Have a global vision and not get distracted by irrelevant tasks
2. Set limits for the delivery of work
3. Break unrealistic expectations and make them more reachable
4. Reduce anxiety, especially when it arises after making a mistake
5. Learn from the details
6. Be realistic

People who suffer from perfectionism find it hard to make mistakes, however, when they realize that those mistakes can improve, they will have a better self-esteem. And you, are you a perfectionist?
 

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