介绍： 1 our dangerous obsession with perfectionism is getting worse
我们对完美主义的危险痴迷越来越严重

00:00
I'm a bit of a perfectionist. Now, how many times have you heard that one? Over drinks, maybe, with friends, or perhaps with family at Thanksgiving.
我是个完美主义者。这话，你们听过多少次了呢？也许是在和朋...

介绍： 1 our dangerous obsession with perfectionism is getting worse
我们对完美主义的危险痴迷越来越严重

00:00
I'm a bit of a perfectionist. Now, how many times have you heard that one? Over drinks, maybe, with friends, or perhaps with family at Thanksgiving.
我是个完美主义者。这话，你们听过多少次了呢？也许是在和朋友一起喝酒时，也许是和家人一起过感恩节时。

00:15
It's everyone's favorite flaw, it's that now quite common response to the difficult, final question at job interviews: "My biggest weakness? That's my perfectionism."
这是人人钟爱的小缺点，在求职面试中，人们现在对于最后一个，也是最难的问题，往往有共同的回应：“我最大的缺点是？我是完美主义者。”

00:32
You see, for something that supposedly holds us back, it's quite remarkable how many of us are quite happy to hold our hands up and say we're perfectionists.
像这样会阻碍我们进步的东西，很明显，有如此多的人非常乐意举起手承认我们是完美主义者。

00:42
But there's an interesting and serious point because our begrudging admiration for perfection is so pervasive that we never really stop to question that concept in its own terms.
但有一个有趣和严肃的观点是，因为我们对完美的艳羡是如此普遍，以致我们从来没真正停下来去质疑这个观点本身。

00:56
What does it say about us and our society that there is a kind of celebration in perfection? We tend to hold perfectionism up as an insignia of worth. The emblem of the successful.
我们和我们的社会存在颂扬完美的现象说明了什么？我们倾向于把完美主义作为价值的象征。成功的象征。

01:15
Yet, in my time studying perfectionism, I've seen limited evidence that perfectionists are more successful. Quite the contrary -- they feel discontented and dissatisfied amid a lingering sense that they're never quite perfect enough.
然而，在我研究完美主义的过程中，我很少看到有证据证明。完美没主义者会更加成功。恰恰相反--他们感到失落和不满。处在一种挥之不去的不完美感觉之中。

01:30
We know from clinician case reports that perfectionism conceals a host of psychological difficulties, including things like depression, anxiety, anorexia, bulimia and even suicide ideation.
我们从临床病例报告中得知，完美主义掩盖了许多心理上的问题，包括抑郁症，焦虑症，厌食症，暴食症，甚至是自杀的想法。

01:41
And what's more worrying is that over the last 25 years, we have seen perfectionism rise at an alarming rate. And at the same time, we have seen more mental illness among young people than ever before.
更让人担忧的是在过去25年中，我们看到完美主义在以一种惊人的速度上升。同时，我们在年轻人中看到的精神疾病病例比以往任何时候都多。

01:55
Rates of suicide in the US alone increased by 25 percent across the last two decades. And we're beginning to see similar trends emerge across Canada, and in my home country, the United Kingdom.
仅是美国的自杀率在过去的20年间就上升了25%。我们在加拿大和我的祖国英国也看到了类似的趋势。

02:06
Now, our research is suggesting that perfectionism is rising as society is changing. And a changed society reflects a changed sense of personal identity and, with it, differences in the way in which young people interact with each other and the world around them.
我们的研究显示，随着社会的发展，完美主义的现象层出不穷。社会的变化反映了个人认同感的变化，同时，也带来了年轻人之间，以及他们与周围环境互动方式的差异。

02:27
And there are some u-n-i-q-u-e characteristics about our preeminent, market-based society that include things like unrestricted choice and personal freedom, and these are characteristics that we feel are contributing to almost epidemic levels of this problem.
我们这个卓越的、以市场为基础的社会有一些独特的特征，包括不受限制的选择和个人自由，我们认为这些特征导致了这个问题的流行程度。

02:43
So let me give you an example. Young people today are more preoccupied with the attainment of the perfect life and lifestyle. In terms of their image, status and wealth.
让我给你们举个例子，今天的年轻人更专注于追求完美的生活和生活方式，也就是个人形象，地位和财富方面的影响力。

02:57
Data from Pew show that young people born in the US in the late 1980s are 20 percent more likely to report being materially rich as among their most important life goals, relative to their parents and their grandparents.
皮尤数据显示，出生于80年代晚期的美国年轻人，认为变富是他们最重要的人生目标的人数比例比他们的父辈和祖辈高出了20%。

03:13
Young people also borrow more heavily than did older generations, and they spend a much greater proportion of their income on image goods and status possessions.
年轻人也比老一代人借贷更多，他们把收入的很大一部分花在形象商品和身份财产上。

03:22
These possessions, their lives and their lifestyles are now displayed in vivid detail on the ubiquitous social media platforms of Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat. In this new visual culture, the appearance of perfection is far more important than the reality.
这些财产，他们的生活和生活方式如今非常生动地展示在无处不在的Instagram Facebook和Snapchat等社交媒体上。在这个新的视觉文化中，完美的外表远比现实重要。

03:44
If one side of the modern landscape that we have so lavishly furnished for young people is this idea that there's a perfectible life and that there's a perfectible lifestyle, then the other is surely work.
如果我们为年轻人提供的现代景观的一面是如此的奢华，即有一种完美的生活，有一种完美的生活方式，那么另一面就肯定是工作。

03:57
Nothing is out of reach for those who want it badly enough. Or so we're told. This is the idea at the heart of the American dream. Opportunity, meritocracy, the self-made person, hard work.
对于那些迫切需要它的人来说，没有什么是遥不可及的。至少人们是这样告诉我们的。这是美国梦的核心思想。机遇、任人唯贤、自力更生、努力工作。