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.