# World Expert on Why Perfectionism Is Your Enemy and How to Overcome It - Professor Thomas Curran  ## About - Author: Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal - Title: World Expert on Why Perfectionism Is Your Enemy and How to Overcome It - Professor Thomas Curran - Tags: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/3c01c9ac-3106-451d-81f7-183fa3e3cca9 ## Highlights > The Struggle with Perfectionism and Dilemma of Control Transcript: Speaker 2 But I think those cliches are a cliche for a reason, because there's like universal truth behind them, but also I think they're almost too easy to dismiss in the sense that if someone is struggling with perfectionism, they might hear about, I don't know, epic teetuses, like dichotomy of control or whatever and be like, oh yeah, of course I should just do the, you know, God grant me the serenity to accept that, that which I can't control, but it's a lot easier said than done. Absolutely. ([Time 0:34:06](https://share.snipd.com/snip/247299c3-912e-499f-95a7-fdcbe1365b11)) ---