Perfectionism Is Not Making You Better at Your Work The cultural script is that perfectionists are your best employees. The high achievers. The ones who care so much they stay late. The research does not agree. A 2025 meta-analysis by Thomas Curran and Aishwarya Bellam looked at data from 9,560 participants across 35 years of...
Perfectionism Is Rising: What 30 Years of Data Say About Why We Feel So Awful Perfectionism is the trait people still brag about in job interviews. It sounds like a weakness that is secretly a strength. The data say something different. Between 1989 and 2016, psychologists Thomas Curran and Andrew Hill pulled together 164 samples...