Welcome back, if you are new here welcome. I am your host Don, and for today’s episode I am going off script. Forewarning, I am going to be all over the place today, I’d like to talk about a few things today that are centered around the following topics. Careers Jobs Gigs Freelance work Education Being a student Self advocacy And hobbies. Lets get into it. Which are all categories that encompasses the work part of work and life. You know the other 75% of what we do in order to have a life. This episode is for everyone, and it is especially for the overachievers, the perfectionists, the workaholics. There has been a rise in perfectionism over the past 4 decades now. There was a study done by Thomas Curran and Andrew Hill called Perfectionism Is Increasing Over Time: A Meta-Analysis of Birth Cohort Differences From 1989 to 2016. Long story short they found that perfectionism has been on a rise since the 80s. According to research published by the American Psychological Association the drive to be perfect has increased and has had an impact in physical and mental health. Everyone I know is a perfectionist in their own right. I am a perfectionist. I have a criteria or standards in which everything I produce have to meet personally and professionally m. Now over the teas I’ve come to terms with the fact that not everything will meet those standards so I’ve become a little more lenient with putting out what I produce and accepting it as good enough but that took years and I am still struggling with it. Types of Perfectionism Perfectionism comes in three common flavors — “self-oriented,” where someone demands perfection from themselves; “other-oriented,” where they demand perfection from others around them (like spouses, co-workers or friends), and “socially prescribed” perfectionism, where the person feels external pressure from the larger world and society to be perfect. https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/11/27/20975989/perfect-mental-health-perfectionism