- There's been in an increasing rate of Perfectionism in the world today. Young people are internalising that they somehow need to be perfect but the world doesn't work that way. - This is something that I myself have also struggled with and I need to use [[Self Compassion]] to counter this narrative. ---- "In 2017, Thomas Curran and Andrew P. Hill published a study that investigated the rates of perfectionism—defined as “a combination of excessively high personal standards and overly critical self-evaluations”—among American, British, and Canadian college students from 1989 to 2016. The study found that perfectionism is on the rise; as the authors wrote in a description of their findings, “increasingly, young people hold irrational ideals for themselves, ideals that manifest in unrealistic expectations for academics and professional achievement, how they should look, and what they should own." - Catherine Price in [[The Power of Fun]]