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Perfectionist: how to simplify your life?

Audio 48:29

Can we really achieve perfection?

© istock / Milan Markovic

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

In our societies where excellence is valued, where we praise and admire those who achieve exceptional performance, some people tend to push the pursuit of perfection too far. 

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Whether in their family life, at work or during studies, these perfectionists maintain unattainable levels of expectation and impose unattainable personal standards.

Guilt, frustration, stress… the quest and demonstration of one's perfection is not without consequences.

How to recognize a perfectionist?

How can we free ourselves from the imperatives that we impose on ourselves? 

This show is a rerun of June 21, 2021 

With

:

Laurence Roux-Fouillet, 

sophrologist, corporate trainer.

Author of

At the end of the program, the portrait of 

This young Beninese activist got involved very early on against violence against girls.

She initiated the association Jeunes Filles Actrices de Développement.

met him in Cotonou.

Chanceline Mevowanou, Beninese activist © Raphaelle Constant

--- BoB Chanceline Mevowanou Benin (Cut-7'09)

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