The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough

Today, burnout and depression are at record levels, driven by a combination of intense workplace competition, oppressively ubiquitous social media encouraging comparisons with others, the quest for elite credentials, and helicopter parenting. Society continually broadcasts the want to want more, and to be perfect.

Gathering quite a lot of recent evidence, Curran calls for both introspection and broader, societal change. He shows what we will be able to do as individuals to withstand the modern-day pressure to be perfect, and in so doing, win for ourselves a more purposeful and contented life.

The Perfection Trap is for someone who has ever felt overwhelmed by the soul-crushing want to not just compete but compete to a level beyond reason. Rather than an ever-moving treadmill, it offers the relief of letting go to concentrate on what matters most.