Perfectionism and burn-out are close friends – best avoid them

Thomas Curran; Andrew Hill

Perfectionism and burn-out are close friends – best avoid them

Thomas Curran, Andrew Hill

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It was Voltaire who said: “perfect is the enemy of the good” – and he should know. A strident critic of existential perfection, Voltaire spent much of his working life attacking the notion of a world imbued by flawless divinity.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publication status	Published - 31 Jul 2015

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