Perfectionist: meaning
Some people ask: perfectionist - who is he?To do this, you must define another concept: Perfectionism (from French. Perfection - perfection) - created by upbringing and environment heightened commitment to excellence in all of its human actions and behavior.Accordingly, a perfectionist - a man, which is peculiar perfektsiionizm.He is convinced of the possibility and the need to achieve perfection in the first place in relation to himself.Many psychologists, however, believe that perfectionism - not a virtue, but a serious personal problem that creates low self-esteem of the individual, as well as a negative impact on its performance.Perfectionist does not see the "golden mean", he has only two extremes: the worst and the most good - its ideal.He sees gray exists for only black and white.For him there is only the "ideal" and "not ideal", and "not ideal" is everything but ideal.In other words, he strives to do everything perfectly, better than others, or do nothing at all, and he is in complete confidence.He said the request for assistance weakness.
Perfectionist - who is it?
This is someone who probably does not want to achieve than to achieve something not fully.Those whose thoughts are put to him unrealistically high goals.Perfectionists are sensitive to public opinion.They hurt any criticism.Perfectionists tend to hide their shortcomings from others.They are afraid to expose their weaknesses.Therefore, they do everything that depends on them to be perfect.The failure or failure shows them that they can not improve themselves.As a result, they feel useless, and their self-esteem drops.
How to determine the extent to which you apply the word "perfectionist"?Who is it and how to identify it?
1) You are very responsible, afraid to make a mistake, you are very attentive to detail.
2) you are seeking to do everything as best as possible, ideally.
3) you spend too much time to improve something.
4) You set the absolute ideals, but everything else is not acceptable for you.
5) You are the most severe critic to himself.
6) You are painfully react to the criticism of others.
7) You will always represent the final goal, the intermediate steps are not for you values.
What if perfectionism is not always a vice?Imagine what the world would be without the great works of world literature, painting, architecture, without great and great composers?Let's look at it from another point of view.Perfectionist - who is it?He is a man of creativity, creator, creator.The Creator has to be a perfectionist, or a writer who creates his work, can give up and say, writing the first attempt "has come and so," or "just fine."Are we able to read "Faust", "Notre Dame de Paris", if Goethe and Hugo would not be perfectionists?Could we contemplate the Mona Lisa, and now if da Vinci would have decided not to bring to perfection the above image smiling ladies?
We have not heard the "Four Seasons" by Vivaldi had at playing the violin said: "I will not work the party and so normal."Thus, perfectionism is good only in some areas of our lives that really need an ideal to aspire to.However, in real life it is very difficult to achieve the ideal, since the society in which we live is far from ideal.So is it worth to feed themselves meaningless illusions?You just need to live and enjoy every little thing?
