Episode
The Perfectionist Trap That Makes It Hard to Leave Law
- Podcast
- The Former Lawyer Podcast
- Published
- Mar 9, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 814
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Summary
Lawyers are, as a group, highly responsible, hard on themselves, and convinced they should be able to handle more than anyone else around them. That combination does not just make for a stressful career. It makes it genuinely difficult to acknowledge that something is wrong, let alone do anything about it. That is where perfectionism becomes a trap. When you hold yourself to a standard you would never apply to anyone else, leaving starts to feel like weakness, or like you are abandoning the p...