Dr. Shareena Hamzah-Osbourne is a Research Associate at Swansea University, UK. She has taught Critical Thinking and Literature in the UK and Malaysia. Her book Jeanette Winterson’s Narratives of Desire is out in June 2021.
When we fall prey to perfectionism, we think we’re honorably aspiring to be our very best, but often we’re really just setting ourselves up for failure, as perfection is impossible and its pursuit inevitably backfires.