When perfectionism becomes a problem
By the time Jared Kant was 12, he had to stop doing his homework with a pencil because the eraser was too tempting.
The line between admirably high standards and painful pathology can be exceedingly thin. “The dividing line,” according to Jared Kant, “is distress.”
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