Perfection

he will deny himself the opportunity of acting upon his true desires. But his true desires are selfish, and selfishness is immoral, and therefore should not be something that a moral saint does. These items conflict with the attainment of moral perfection, and therefore should not be desired. You do not need to be rich or have expensive, material items in your life in order to bring yourself true happiness. Being a morally good person will bring you happiness because you are practicing ideals…

with almost similar result, told me that I was over-stressing myself. ‘90+ is an A* dude, why bother to get more?’ was their general reaction. But still, 99 out of 100 left a gap somewhere for me - a room for improvement. And that’s what wanting perfection has made me understand- the fact you’re never perfect. Trying to be perfect has helped to improvise on my errors; it has helped me to learn from my…

What does the word perfection mean? It means the condition, state, or quality of being free or as free as possible from all flaws or defects. The 3 main ideas i will be focusing on is, 1. People cannot achieve perfection 2. How are people imperfect 3. Why would a utopia not survive. Can a utopia really exist. The first topic I will go over is people are imperfect. Thisibelive.org says if everyone were , they would identical. If people were perfect they would do everything correctly and no…

A Point Where I Gave Up Being a perfectionist has it's positives and negatives. Perfection for me was a matter of not allowing myself to fail at anything. Experiencing failure to me allows a person to grow and to learn how to overcome failure. I grew up as a perfectionist, but recently, I have learned the value of failure. I am a perfectionist because I never want to disappoint my father. My father didn't graduate high school or have someone lead him in the right direction. I believe that his…

Define a Perfectionist The summer before freshman year, I decided to join the cheerleading team. I thought, maybe it might be fun, being on a team with some classmates and maybe even making new friends. Once, during a team dinner, everybody started talking about the upcoming school year. The biggest topic was who would be in each other’s classes. When the faces at the table turned to me, it was my queue to list the courses I was taking. “Advanced English, Advanced Geometry, World History 1…”…

always striving to reach perfection. It isn't surprising to see a “perfectionist”, in fact it is completely normal. These perfectionists try their hardest to obtain what their idea of perfection is, but what they don't realize is that it is impossible. Everyone’s idea of perfection is different and if we lived in a utopian society we would come across problems like manipulation and individualism. This can be seen in the texts “Harrison Bergeron” and 1984. Attaining perfection would be…

bad) wouldn’t all the person to develop their character creating lifeless people living without traits and hobbies nd luxuries. Yet, Singer’s argument will show that we are obligated because we don’t want to teach non-moral selfish traits, personal perfection isn’t key, and promoting happiness is a good life. Singer claims that we are morally obligated to prevent a bad if it wouldn’t sacrifice anything of comparable moral importance…

 Anxiety and Perfectionism: Relationships, Mechanisms, and Conditions. A study suggests that perfectionism interacts with other elements to produce a variety of types of anxious symptomology, including, but not restricted to, trait and state anxiety, social anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. The recognized intra- and interpersonal elements characterize possible prevention or cure targets for assuaging perfectionism and disrupting the way between perfectionism and anxiety. While the…

In the past decades, the operationalization of perfectionism took many visions. In 1984, A. Pacht described perfectionism as a debilitating and undesirable trait. He stated that perfectionists are only focused on the extremes of a continuum instead of accepting a middle ground (Pacht, 1984). Frost, Marten, Lahart & Rosenblate (1990) defined perfectionism as a multi-domain problem and alienated it in five prominent subcategories: high personal standards of performance, concern over mistakes in…

Perfection is what humans hope to succeed in their life. However, many teenagers and young adults go through stages of anxiety, depression and self-hatred which leads to many hardships for young people, making it hard for them to believe that they are perfect. These types of mental illnesses can lead to serious self-harm and possible suicide. P!nk, like many others, has gone through mental illness in her earlier years and has understood the seriousness and scariness that come with mental…