The Hidden Cost of Success: Rethinking Perfection in Our Lives скачать в хорошем качестве

The Hidden Cost of Success: Rethinking Perfection in Our Lives

As we step into a new year, we tend to reflect on the past and set fresh goals. However, this also brings new pressures. We return from the holidays with stories of success, happiness, and progress. But beneath those polished narratives, we all understand the costs of striving to get it all “just right.” From the perfect job to the ideal look, flawless family photo, and valid values, perfection has become a social currency. And when others do not match our version of it, we distance ourselves—sometimes without realizing it. This culture of performance and comparison is fueling a mental health crisis in our schools, workplaces, and personal lives. All our voices are crucial in this candid conversation about what we are chasing, what we are hiding, and how we might redefine success to include something more human. We hope that you will Join us and be a part of this important dialogue! ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS Carin-Isabel Knoop is the founder and executive director of the Case Research & Writing Group at Harvard Business School, where she has facilitated the development of over 3,000 pieces of course material since 1999. Over the years, Carin has also co-authored hundreds of case studies on business and leadership, engaging closely with managers and leaders as they navigate professional and personal challenges. Motivated by a desire to improve their lives—and the lives they influence—she co-authored Compassionate Management of Mental Health in the Modern Workplace (Springer, 2018, with Dean John Quelch). Since then, Carin’s essays have appeared in Medium, and her work has been featured in Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and The Conversation as well as podcasts and other outlets exploring mental health, leadership, and human sustainability at work. With Bahia El Oddi, she developed Harvard Business Publishing’s modules and course collections on mental health and well-being at work and co-founded Human Sustainability Inside Out, an educational initiative. Born in Mexico to a French Catholic mother and German Protestant father, Carin spent her childhood split between Africa, Europe, and the US. Growing up across cultures and languages, she became a “pragmatic optimist” able to appreciate nuance, value different perspectives, and embrace the complexity of life, love, and work. Bahia El Oddi is a consultant and the founder of Human Sustainability Inside Out, a platform offering content and services related to mental health and well-being at work. Her work has been mostly focused on the cost of perfection, eating disorders and body image at work. She has more recently created the platform “Support & Help against Eating Disorders” to break stigmas and bring light to the pressures that we face in a world increasingly obsessed with appearance, body image, and food. Prior to this, Bahia created CoCaSha (Connect, Care & Share), an NGO aimed to help women entrepreneurs to weather the financial impact of COVID by empowering them with digital skills. Originally from Morocco, she moved to Boston to pursue an MBA at Harvard Business School, where she graduated with Honors. She then joined MIT Open Learning to found TRUE Africa University, an online university aiming to empower African talent to accelerate the continent’s development. Prior to her MBA, Bahia worked at Google, where she focused on enabling technologies preserving arts and culture after working as a consultant at Bain & Company. She is the co-founder of Dar El Oddi, a Cultural Center aiming to make Morocco’s cultural heritage accessible to everyone.