#status-seeking

#status-seeking

You'll find a plethora of articles on how it affects the individual subscriber, citing the effects of excessively high standards for oneself on one's long-term motivation, self-esteem, and passion for one's work. Those articles consistently relate this form of perfectionism back to oneself. The problem, however, is that the preoccupation with self continues with a further preoccupation with self. "How does this affect me?" is the perfectionist's seminal question.