How would you like to be the best lover in the world, the sweetest of mothers, the friend that everyone would dream of having, the girl rolled perfectly, one who cooks better than anyone, always at the forefront of fashion, super pro in his job? How would you like to be perfect? How to say no ... The quest for perfection is the disease of the century. Probably because our society does not forgive missteps, probably because it is believed they would be loved more if it was less heavy, more smiling, less stressed, funniest, etc. And if we stop all this? It took at least someone like a Boris Cyrulnik, to convince us of this crazy idea: it is by being imperfect one is at the top. But if ! This is the best news of the summer.
Is the quest for perfection still as strong as before?
IT. Is the quest for perfection stronger than before? BORIS CYRULNIK. No, it has always existed. This desire for perfection probably dates back to the origin of humanization, when we had cut pebbles and flint, build the first shelter windproof, carve the first arrows and spears raw. Each weapon and each tool had to be absolutely perfect, if we were killed and / or eaten. The desire for perfection is a defense mechanism against anxiety. Yet the only perfection that exists is imperfect! It is the fact of not being perfect authorizing changes, that is to say, the adaptation of social environments, family, ecological, which are all the time changing.
