Procrastination: Perfectionism
When Doing Your Best Backfires
Continue challenging your pro-procrastination attitudes and beliefs by exploring the role of perfectionism in productivity. Perfectionism and the drive to always do your best is pervasive in graduate school and society in general. But what happens when perfectionism leads to procrastination and stagnation?
As one of the most entrenched attitudes among graduate students, the idea of not doing your absolute best might be shocking! But, the very idea that perfection exists undermines productivity. If the thought of not working your hardest is inconceivable to you, then you need this module. Because it’s time to unlearn some of the most pervasive toxic productivity myths out there.
However, if you’re one of the rare graduate students who know that perfectionism is the enemy of productivity and progress then you can skip this module and move onto the next pro-procrastination attitude, Negative Self-Appraisal. You can mark this module as complete and advance to the next module using the buttons at the bottom of the page.
Recorded length: 25 minutes
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Akkaya, E. (2007). Academic procrastination among faculty of education students: the role of gender, age, academic achievement, perfectionism and depression (Master’s thesis, Middle East Technical University).
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