Thomas Curran is a social and personality psychologist working at the Centre for Motivation and Health Behavior Change in Bath, UK as well as being part of the Motivation, Personality and Well-being research group in York, UK. Curran also teaches as an assistant professor at the University of Bath. In his TED talk he gives us an insight into his research findings concerning the rise of attaining perfectionism in American, Canadian and British university students. He highlights the fact that our societies pave the path to an obsession with being perfect and as a result an extensive rise in mental illness in young people.