Perfectionism

During my freshman year, what I viewed as the worst possible event happened, (PAUSE) I got a B on my report card. I know that sounds dramatic but freshman me thought my world was ending. I now know that a B is a perfectly acceptable grade and that it's not the end of the world. But this raises the question, why did I think that a B was such a bad thing? Last year I worked on figuring out why I viewed B's as a bad thing. The end result of my thinking was that I am a perfectionist. Merriam Webster Dictionary defines perfectionism as “refusal to accept any standard short of perfection.” The reach for perfection can be painful because it is often driven by both a desire to do well and a fear of the consequences of not doing well. The problem is

From the time I was in about fourth or fifth grade I began to dislike certain subjects in school. I loathed everything about writing assignments. I didn’t write at home before that the thought of writing for myself never really occurred to me. I hated the deadlines the length requirements and I just tried to get them done and had no intention of writing well because I told myself I was a bad writer. I have never really known whether or not I truly am a bad writer. I continued these habits of just writing something down to get a decent grade all throughout school. I usually got an okay grade because I followed the prompt closely and did the minimum amount of work for the paper. I didn’t start the assignments until either the night before it was due. As I got older I would type the paper on my phone in school that day then print it off in the library moments before class. I continued writing in that awful ritual of complacency until the end of 11th grade. We had to write a paper on The Great Gatsby a book that I never read. I read couple of notes on the internet and then wrote the paper and never reread it or edited it all. I did my usual routine and followed the prompt and turned my paper in. When I got my paper back I was shocked to find out I didn’t get even a half decent grade I was given a zero. I went to my teacher after class to speak with him about the grade and he told me I got the grade that I deserved. He said I was lazy and never tried to truly work in

It took me a couple of days to decide what book to choose. When I finally chose and was ready to start my paper, I wasn't really sure what I was supposed to do. I think that I have a good idea of what to do, however, I wasn't positive. I wrote my paper even though I wasn't sure that I was doing it right. By the time I had even thought to contact my professor it was the night it was due. I had already wrote and proofread the assignment, however, I didn't feel that I was doing it right. Panic began to rise in my chest as j realized that I had to pass this assignment if I wanted a chance of passing the class. I had to turn it in now because the time was just after eleven forty. I clicked submit not even aware that I didn't feel the need to make sure it was the right assignment. I was really nervous to get the results back. I had to pass. When I got the email that it was graded I hesitated. When I worked up the courage to read the feedback. I felt a grin make its way onto my face. I had passed this assignment with flying

mediation analysis showed that the link between the socially prescribed aspect of perfectionism and burnout (emotional exhaustion) was mediated by workaholism.

Being diagnosed, and living with OCD each, and everyday myself, I have heard people repeatedly say they have OCD, when all they do is like to make sure their laundry is washed, folded correctly, and they don’t like when other people touch their laundry, and don’t wash, or fold it “their way”. Let’s get one-thing straight: This’s Perfectionism; not OCD!

The idea of perfection developed by the media, consists of the characteristics tall, blonde, and simply unrealistic. The photoshopped pictures of these idealistic women are all over magazines and billboards. Women conform themselves to try to meet these standards through plastic surgeries, crazy exercise routines and potentially deadly diets. A combination of outside influences and genetics can drive women to major mental disorders.

Perfection is unreachable but we still stick our hands out and try to grasp it. What is perfection? Perfections is trying to please and make you seem superior to the ones around you. No one strives to be perfect for themselves because there is no point. “It’s on the internet, the television, their cell phone, at the gym. They can’t get away from it.” (Pursuit Of Perfection NP). People see perfection and realize the feel like they have to be the same way. They feel like they have to fit in with the general public. Perfection is the idea that “I have to fit it” People want to be the same models or hot people they see everyone liking and trying to achieve the unsuccessful success that they have. Going about life is like a game of simon says. People

August 28, 2017, the first day of my fresh and scary journey. My first day as a Colorado Christian University student, English composition online is my first class. Part of me is ready; part of me is ready to throw in the towel. I hadn’t even had a chance to turn a paper in, and the first assignment, a 5-paragraph essay had me thinking “you’re a crazy person for going back to school, it’s been 11 years since you had to write a paper. What are you thinking?” I told myself its 5 weeks (later I would realize actually 6) you can make it 5 weeks! Although I knew writing wouldn’t be my easiest subject, I knew I had to try my hardest. This class was condensed and hard, but effective and informative; I’ve learned so much, felt all sorts of emotions and know I can apply what I’ve learned in classes to come.

This major term paper is designed to show the decrease of the behaviour of “perfectionism” within a 20 year old, male university student. This paper is designed to achieve a more realistic and sustainable lifestyle as well as to decrease the negative effects of “perfectionism” and effective ways of dealing with this type of behaviour. Negative effects of “perfectionism” typically include depression, anxiety, OCD, deterioration of social aspects and emotional aspects. In the past methods he has used included maintain outside social relations, decreasing the withdrawal period after an unattainable goal hasn’t been achieved. Often times the participant would seek advice from his mother who also suffers from being a “perfectionist” by doing so

American culture, afraid of hard work suppresses perfectionism, a trait closely tied to a strong work ethic. So many articles and papers explain the detrimental effects of striving for perfectionism; the website, Psychology Today says, “Perfectionism may be the ultimate self-defeating behavior. It turns people into slaves of success—but keeps them focused on failure, dooming them to a lifetime of doubt and depression.”

Chapter 6 of our textbook talks about the concept of the early childhood educator as a model. Whether they realize it or not, teachers are constantly modeling behaviors and attitudes for their students. Some of these behaviors and attitudes provide good examples for students and others serve as poor examples. My tendency toward perfectionism is one habit I don't wish to model for my future students. As a perfectionist, I would often, and sometimes still do, strive for unattainable standards, be very self-critical and try hard to avoid failure at all costs.

To be perfect is impossible. But the ability to achieve the impossible is the temptress. Perfectionism has been described as a multidimensional personality disposition. Indicating that the multiple dimensions can show either different or opposite correlations with maladaptive or adaptive psychological processes (Stoeber, Corr, Smith, & Saklofske, 2016). It is a personality disposition that can be characterized by a striving for flawlessness and setting exceedingly high standards for oneself. These standards can pertain to performances that are subsequently accompanied by self-critical evaluations and the perception that others expect one to be perfect (Stoeber, 2016; Stoeber, Edbrooke-Childs, & Damian, 2016). Perfectionism is a disposition that pervades all areas of life including but not limited to work, school, personal appearance, and social relationships (Stoeber, Edbrooke-Childs, & Damian, 2016).

Perfectionism has been in a centre of attention of sport psychologists for last few decades and even though a ‘research boom’ already provided many interesting findings, the topic offers plenty of other areas to investigate.

To be perfect is impossible. But the ability to achieve the impossible is the temptress. Perfectionism has been described as a multidimensional personality disposition. Indicating that the multiple dimensions can show either different or opposite correlations with maladaptive or adaptive psychological processes (Stoeber, Corr, Smith, & Saklofske, 2016). It is a personality disposition that can be characterized by a striving for flawlessness and setting exceedingly high standards for oneself. These standards can pertain to performances that are subsequently accompanied by self-critical evaluations and the perception that others expect one to be perfect (Stoeber, 2016; Stoeber, Edbrooke-Childs, & Damian, 2016). Perfectionism is a disposition that pervades all areas of life including but not limited to work, school, personal appearance, and social relationships (Stoeber, Edbrooke-Childs, & Damian, 2016).

Throughout the day I had teachers telling me about all the upcoming homework and the homework differences and how much i’m going to get and all the other homework stuff. Every teacher is different. But it is mostly reading and writing and math that gave me all the homework. On man, I can remember all the homework I got from my math teacher. I got homework everyday and sometimes I would so mad or tired of it I wouldn't do it. Ok well… not sometimes, but often. It’s not good, I know. I feel like I broke a record of most missing assignments of the year. Or at least the top 10. I had 44 missing assignments! Although, at the same time my missing assignments weren't getting reset or removed at the beginning of every quarter. I remember running around the commons almost every morning to escape my math