What Is Even Happening?

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Ironically, a quest for perfection will likely destroy us
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Ironically, a quest for perfection will likely destroy us

Live your life and don't worry so much about others.

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Ted Bauer
Jan 30, 2018
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From data based on 41,641 American, Canadian, and British college students:

Between 1989 and 2016, college students’ levels of self-oriented, socially prescribed, and other-oriented perfectionism all increased by statistically significant amounts. Recent generations of young people are more demanding of themselves, perceive that others are more demanding…

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