While attending university, I became obsessed with productivity, sleeping overnight in the library, in order to balance course work, extracurricular activities and a part-time job. Eventually, I experienced a breakdown as the sheer exhaustion of trying so desperately to be perfect overwhelmed me. Perfectionism is an increasingly severe public health issue that we need toContinue reading “Perfectionism isn’t a super power – it’s a mental health risk”
Category Archives: personality
Stop Being Busy
Sometimes there is so much pressure in our society to be constantly on the go. Way too often when you ask people how their week is going the response is the same: “busy.” I first saw this at Georgetown – where there was almost a pathological desire by the student body to impart an imageContinue reading “Stop Being Busy”
The Introverted President
In a recent New York Times Op-Ed, Susan Cain addresses some of the concerns that have been made over President Obama’s ostensibly introverted personality. Mr. Heilemann may be right that Mr. Obama is an introvert, but his apparent sense of what the word means is wrong. Introverts like people just as much as extroverts do,Continue reading “The Introverted President”
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