I’m reading a really good book on perfectionism called Overcoming Perfectionism: a self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques. It is excellent. It shows how perfectionism is so inefficient. It shows how perfectionists procrastinate. It shows how they tend to ‘blow the whole thing’ because of their ‘all or nothing thinking’. It’s by Roz Shafran, Sarah Egan and Tracey Wade. It’s packed with helpful exercises and challenging facts aimed at convincing perfectionists of the deficits of perfectionist thinking and behaviours. I wish I’d found this book earlier!