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From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel, and this is Hello Monday.

It's our show about the changing nature of work, and how that work is changing us.

I'm a perfectionist. I know this about myself. I can be exacting to a fault, and I come down too strongly when my very high standards aren't met.

And the person I come down on hardest, well, it's not Sarah, in the production booth, although she may disagree.

It's actually myself, of course.

Like right now, I'm just so annoyed with myself that I didn't send out our newsletter this week.

I usually send out our newsletters on Mondays, and it was a holiday Monday. I was on an epic road trip with my toddlers.

They went in snacks and books, and to get out of the car, we were staying in a hotel, and I'm still kicking myself that I didn't just set the alarm for 5.30.

Wake up before the kids at the hotel, pull out my laptop to work for just 20 minutes.

I think of perfectionism as a problem I have. I think to fix.

Couldn't I just chill a little, but also, like, couldn't I have just gotten up a tiny bit earlier? Really though.

So I was so excited to talk to this week's guest, Catherine Morgan Schaffler.

Catherine is a psychotherapist, and she's developed a specialty in women who present outwardly as if they're doing it all,

and often feel like they're crumbling inside.

Perfectionists.

Catherine has just published a book, and she's called it the perfectionist's guide to losing control.

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