The pursuit of perfection and Africa’s self-sabotage
Tuesday February 09 2021
Prioritization of perfection has been associated with stress, burnout, and anxiety in any strategy pursuit. This is as true for individuals as it applies to systems.
While perfectionists strive to produce flawless work, they are more likely to set inflexible and excessively high standards and to evaluate themselves overly critically and to believe that their self-worth is entirely dependent on performing perfectly.
With the obvious advantage that perfect results need no promoting when achieved, speaking for themselves, they are often elusive and failure to attain them can set in motion sentiments of self-doubt and certainly can be responsible for operational inefficiencies.