You’ve heard it before: You shouldn’t let perfection get in the way of progress. But you also want to excel at work and perfection may seem like the best pathway for career growth. But perfection can be a barrier to getting ahead—in some surprising ways. It’s to your advantage to let go of the pursuit of perfection and find ways to be excellent without being ideal.
If you try to be perfect, you’re in good company. A study of over 41,000 people published in Psychological Bulletin found perfectionism has increased over time, partly because of the comparisons people do with each other on social media, and
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