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• The pitfalls of perfectionism – and why ‘good enough’ should be your goal | Gill Straker and Jacqui Winship

  18-01-2026 15:00
  Healthy striving – a flexible wish to improve – accepts limits and understands that error is integral to masteryThe modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their workNew year’s resolutions are catnip for perfectionism. Each January we are invited to reinvent ourselves as fitter, more productive, more virtuous, with the rollover of the calendar offering us a clean slate and a chance to correct our flaws.While reasonable goals for mod
  
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• How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’?

  18-01-2026 13:00
  Big tech treats our attention like a resource to be mercilessly extracted. The fightback begins hereIn the last 15 years, a linked series of unprecedented technologies have changed the experience of personhood across most of the world. It is estimated that nearly 70% of the human population of the Earth currently possesses a smartphone, and these devices constitute about 95% of internet access-points on the planet. Globally, on average, people seem to spend close to half their waking hours looki
  
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