The "messy girl" aesthetic is back—ditching perfection for personality, chaos, and cool, one wired headphone at a time.

What they found was telling. “Most results suggested that [toxic] perfectionism,” Goodman writes, “led to poorer connections with one’s church and one’s relationship with God.” ...

Perfectionism is a coping mechanism for the fear of uncertainty, existential emptiness, the prospect of regret, and a sense of insignificance, and it has long-term costs.

How Perfectionism Holds You Back Instead of driving success, unchecked perfectionism often leads to self-doubt, procrastination, inefficiency, and even physical and emotional burnout. 1 ...

From medicine to finance to tech, many high-pressure professions reward perfectionism, and risk the same psychological costs. Professor Goodwin hopes the findings will inspire leaders to rethink ...