Charly Haversat
| TED speaker on perfectionism and performance
About
Charly Haversat is a professional speaker affiliated with Duke University who explores how perfectionism impacts human performance and potential. Through research-backed insights, Haversat examines the psychological barriers that prevent people from taking action and achieving their goals.
Haversat shared these ideas on the TED stage in 2015, presenting on why perfectionism holds people back from success and fulfillment. The talk addresses the often-counterintuitive ways that striving for perfection can become an obstacle rather than a driver of achievement, offering audiences practical frameworks for overcoming self-imposed limitations and embracing productive progress over paralyzing standards.
What Charly Talks About
Why perfectionism holds us back from achieving our goals
Overcoming psychological barriers to performance and action
Moving from perfectionist paralysis to productive progress
The relationship between high standards and actual achievement
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Perfectionism holds us back. Here's why
If you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all? Recovering perfectionist Charly Haversat challenges our obsession with perfection in our personal lives, workplaces and beyond. Can we fight the crippling fear of failure and the unwillingness to compromise that it creates?
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