I came across a TedTalk by Thomas Curran titles "Our dangerous obsession with perfectionism is getting worse" which reminded me of the society in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The speaker mentioned how perfectionism has risen more a lot since the internet and social media. He states that young people are focused too much on looking perfect on the internet. This causes young people to want to look, act, or have as many followers as an internet influencer. He continues the video by talking about how the youth are forced to judge themselves based on their grades. Students are required to take multiple standardized test throughout their years of schooling and are constantly being grades on their assignments and work. He believes that this make young people feel unhappy and discourages since they feel they are not good enough.
He suggest that we need a world that is less obsessed with perfectionism. He wants to help young people understand that no one is flawless and failure is not a sign of weakness. Since this idea of perfectionism has doubled since the 20th century, anxiety and other mental health illnesses have increased. Do you think in a world that revolves too much around perfectionism? Is the idea of perfection something good for the youth in order for them to push themselves to do better? When do you think the idea of being perfect is too much?
People often do get too caught up in being perfect as you say, but I think the real problem is how society gives us an idealized version of who we should be like, what we should do and what is to be considered perfect when in actuality, being perfect is not really a thing. We should be taught that it is not striving for some unattainable standard of being the perfect person that is the goal, but that the goal is success and happiness, and happiness comes in all different shapes and sizes for everyone and is unique to the individual. We're not all the same, and we do not have all the same goals, so an image of what is perfect should not be forced upon us.
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I feel like teens especially are affected by perfectionism in today's society because of social media. We have this set standard of what our body's should look like rather than how we can love our body for the way it is. In school there is unnecessary pressure to get certain grades and when we don't reach those standards, we feel unsuccessful and unhappy with ourselves. I do believe we live in a world that revolves too much around perfectionism. We've set unrealistic goals or goals that aren't even ours to begin with because we believe that it will better us rather than focusing on personal goals.
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