#624 Best Of: Perfectionism - Meghan Daum
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2022
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
Originally recorded in 2011, the critically-acclaimed author of 6 books (most recently The Problem With Everything), columnist and blogger (@Meghan_Daum) talks with Paul about growing up and later rebelling in a household where music and academia were everything. She talks about the pressure of starting a writing career in Manhattan and living a real-life Devil Wears Prada nightmare, where the idea of even living in a rundown building in a bohemian neighborhood became unattainable. They talk about the epiphany of realizing her dreams were shallow, materialistic and unattainable, her move to Nebraska and the perspective and novel (The Quality of Life Report) that resulted. A great episode for people who have a critical inner voice that never shuts up. Meghan has written for The New Yorker, Harper’s and Vogue and has contributed to This American Life. She also hosts the podcast The Unspeakable and is a co-host on another called A Special Place In Hell. She recently launched a new project, creating an intellectual community for freethinking women called The Unspeakeasy.
Meghan is a weekly blogger for Medium and host of The Unspeakable podcast (@UnspeakPod) at www.theunspeakablepodcast.com
Find out more about Meghan and her books, including The Problem With Everything at https://MeghanDaum.com
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Read her on Substack https://meghandaum.substack.com/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 624, a best of episode that was previously recorded way back in 2011, |
| 0:11.0 | the first year of the show. |
| 0:13.6 | And it's with Megan Dom, who is a great author. |
| 0:19.1 | She recently started podcast as well. |
| 0:21.7 | And we'll give you all those details in the show notes. |
| 0:25.0 | But I think this is a great conversation about perfectionism and I don't know about you |
| 0:32.0 | guys, but I struggle with that. |
| 0:34.4 | Which brings me to our sponsor for this week, this episode and this podcast, sponsored |
| 0:39.0 | by BetterHelpOnlineConscling. |
| 0:41.1 | I've been using them for years and my next appointment with my therapist Heidi is in |
| 0:48.2 | about a week. |
| 0:49.5 | And I definitely need to talk about, not even know if they're related, but my |
| 0:55.0 | struggles with perfectionism and being competitive or feeling competitive. |
| 1:01.7 | Because I don't know about you, but there's a feeling in me sometimes that, well, if I'm |
| 1:06.1 | not going to do well at this, if I'm not going to do as well as everybody else or better |
| 1:13.1 | than other people, why even try it? |
| 1:17.4 | It's been with me since I was a little kid. |
| 1:19.2 | Anyway, I'm a big fan of BetterHelp. |
| 1:21.7 | As the world's largest therapy service, BetterHelp has matched 3 million people with professionally |
| 1:27.4 | licensed and vetted therapists available 100% online. |
| 1:32.1 | Plus it's affordable. |
| 1:34.4 | Just fill out a brief questionnaire to match with the therapist. |
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