Students and Perfectionism, Hermits Can Teach Us About Being Alone

More College Students Seem to Be Majoring in Perfectionism (11:10) Thomas Curran, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health, at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. His research focuses on perfectionism in young people. “Good won’t get me into med school.”  That is what you might be hearing from your high school or college student.  Today, social media is creating a world where students might have unrealistic educational and professional ideals---replacing good, with perfectionism.  Thomas Curran shares his research into perfectionism. What Early Hermits can Teach us About Being Alone (59:48) Kim Haines-Eitzen, Ph.D., is a Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions with a specialty in Early Christianity, Early Judaism, and Religion in Late Antiquity at Cornell University.  Social media shows us smiling faces surrounded by happy people in beautiful locations. But we all know that is just a moment in time and not a state of living. The time in between those pictures we post can be filled with loneliness. This doesn’t have to be that case as Dr. Kim Haines-Eitzen argues in her article “One isn’t always the loneliest number”.