Marty Nemko

Many people try to ruminate their way out of a dilemma: where to live, which career to choose, how to go about meeting Mr/Ms Right, etc. ...

Perfectionism is often deemed a liability. In my PsychologyToday.com article today , I discuss its upsides.

Many people are excessively perfectionistic. Perhaps an even larger number aren't perfectionistic enough. In my PsychologyToday.com ar...

Hannah was working on among the most meaningful projects: trying to uncover the genes that cause early heart attack. And yet she suffered ...

Perfectionism: Is it a problem? And if so, what to do about it?   That's the topic of my PsychologyToday.com article. HERE is the li...

I've had the privilege of being career coach to some of the world's most successful executives, lawyers, physicians, professors, etc...

I go back and forth on the wisdom of aiming for perfection versus aiming for the best work that can be done in a reasonable amount of time....

Articles usually focus on success stories, in part because they make the author look good. But much can be learned from failures. So here is...

Here's a list of ideas that I derived from one of today's career counseling sessions. I've written about most of these ideas bef...

A number of my clients are so perfectionistic that they make every task painful to complete. So, they procrastinate until they must get it d...