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The Art of the Portrait
Masterpieces of European Portrait-Painting
The Great Age of the Portrait
Origins of the Portrait
Jan van Eyck: Tymotheos
Jan van Eyck: The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini
Jan van Eyck: The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin
Rogier van der Weyden: Portrait of a Lady
Jean Fouquet: Etienne Chevalier Presented by St Stephen
Hans Memling: Man with a Roman Coin
Antonello da Messina: Portrit of a Man, known as "Il Condottiere"
Early Portrait of a Ruler
Piero della Francesca: Federigo da Montefeltro and his Wife Battista Sforza
Portraits of Renaissance Women
Pisanello: Young Lady of the Este Family
Leonardo da Vinci: The Lady with the Ermine (Cecilia Gallerani)
Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa (La Gioconda)
Giorgione: Portrait of a Young Lady ("Laura")
Piero di Cosimo: Simonetta Vespucci
Agnolo Bronzino: Laura Battiferri
The Psychological Portrait
Lorenzo Lotto: Young Man before a White Curtain
Lorenzo Lotto: Man with a Golden Paw
Moretto da Brescia: Portrait of a Young Man
Portraits and Caricatures
Quentin Massys: Old Woman (The Queen of Tunis)
Portraits of Renaissance Humanists
Luca Signorelli: Portrait of a Middle-Aged Man
Agnolo Bronzino: Portrait of Ugolino Martelli
Raphael: Baldassare Castiglione
Lucas Cranach the Elder: Dr. Cuspinian and his Wife
Hans Holbein the Younger: Erasmus of Rotterdam
Mythologising Portraits
Agnolo Bronzino: Andrea Doria as Neptune
Nicoletto da Modena (?): Francis I of France as an Antique God
Portraits of Popes and Cardinals
Raphael: Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giuliano de' Medici and Luigi de Rossi
Titian: Pope Paul III, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese and Duke Ottavio Farnese
Portraits of Artists and Collectors
Lorenzo Lotto: Andrea Odoni
Titian: Jacopo de Strada
Artists' Self-Portraits
Albrecht Durer: Self-Portrait with a Fur Coat
Nicolas Poussin: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt: Self-Portraits
Portrait of a Friend
Hans Holbein the Younger: The French Ambassadors to the English Court
"Teste Composte"
Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Vertumnus
Portraits of 16th and 17th-century Rulers
Titian: Emperor Charles V after the Battle of Miihlberg
Anthony van Dyck: Charles I of England, Hunting
Hyacinthe Rigaud: Louis XIV of France
Philippe de Champaigne: Triple Portrait of Cardinal Richelieu
Marriage and Family Portraits
Peter Paul Rubens: Rubens and Isabella Brant under the Honeysuckle
Jacob Jordaens: The Artist and his Family
Portraits of Children
Giovanni Francesco Caroto: Boy with a Drawing
Jan van Scorel: The Schoolboy
Diego Velazquez: The Infante Philip Prosper
Dutch Civic Guard Portraits
Rembrandt: "The Night Watch"
Portraits of Regents
Frans Hals: The Governors of the Old Men's Almshouse at Haarlem
Anatomy Lessons
Rembrandt: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
Portraits of Fools and Dwarfs
Diego Velazquez: The Dwarf "El Primo"
Jan van Eyck:
Tymotheos (Leal Souvenir)
It is perhaps no accident that Jan van Eyck's earliest surviving portrait carries a date (10th October 1432), for temporality constitutes an important aspect of this work in other ways too. Traces of the passage of time - in the form of cracks, chipped-off or broken pieces of stone and "sgraffito"-like scratchmarks - are visible on a relatively broad, trompe-l'oeil parapet which serves as a repoussoir and suggests a frame, pushing the sitter back - though not very far - from the picture-plane. Even hard, apparently permanent materials do not last - what hope then for the human counterfeited here! An inscription, not unlike an epitaph, and yet evidently referring to a living person, is chiselled on the parapet: LEAL SOUVENIR, "loyal remembrance". The words anticipate that rapid process of change which the sitter, portrayed here on a certain day, will soon experience in his own life. The portrait resembles a record of something which is subject to continual change, and which the painter, or sitter, wishes to commit to memory, or preserve. It is as though images had magical powers, as if appearances could replace reality, or, indeed, be a substitute for life altogether. Yet all that remains is the apparently authentic reproduction of a physical sensation on the retina, in other words, the transmission of optical signs, of perceptions of light, via colour and paint.
"Leal Souvenir" ("Tymotheos")
It is not clear what kind of document the man is holding in his hand. If the sitter was a musician, the scroll may be a piece of music. One theory suggests the paper is the plan for a sculpture.
The portrait is a three-quarters view of a man of about - according to Erwin Panof sky - thirty years, turned slightly to the left before an homogenously dark background. He sports a fashionable green head-dress from which a scarf hangs down onto his right shoulder. He is also wearing a red coat with a thin fur collar. His left arm is folded behind the parapet, his left hand obscured by his right, which is holding a scroll of paper.
The identity of the sitter has been the subject of considerable speculation. It would seem logical to expect the strange name which someone appears to have lettered onto the stone in Greek - TYMПOEOC (Tymotheos) - to provide a clue. In fact, the name did not occur in the Netherlands before the Reformation, a discovery which led Panofsky to see it as a scholarly humanist metonym whose purpose was to link the sitter with an eminent figure in Classical antiquity. As far as Panofsky was concerned, there was only one outstanding person of that name it could have been: Tymotheos of Milet, who revolutionized Greek music during the age of Euripides and Plato. It followed that van Eyck's sitter could only have been a musician, one equally renowned for his innovative contribution to the art. What was more, there had indeed been a radical upheaval in early fifteenth-century music, centred in Burgundy and known as "ars nova". Its leading exponents were the courtly composers Guillaume Dufay and Gilles Binchois. Since Dufay was known to have been abroad when the portrait was painted, the sitter - according to Panofsky - can only have been Binchois.
Wendy Wood's more recent, alternative explanation is based on a similar argument. Rather than the musician mentioned above, Wood traces the antique Tymotheos to a sculptor celebrated for his bas-reliefs. Seeking an analogous sculptor at the Burgundian court, she identifies "Tvmotheos" as Gilles de Blachere.
The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife
National Gallery, London
This double portrait, dated 1434, is described in the inventories of Margaret of Austria as a painting of "Hernoulle Fin", or "Arnoult Fin", probably French corruptions of the Italian name Arnolfim. Since this early explanation of his identity has never been called into question, it is probably permissable to assume that the man wearing the scapular-like, mink-trimmed coat and tall, broad-brimmed hat is indeed the Italian merchant Arnolfini, who managed the Lucchese company of Marco Guidecon at Bruges, where Jan van Eyck lived and worked. Records show his wife was Jeanne (Giovanna) Cenami, born in Pans and also of Italian extraction. She is consequently the woman in the picture, wearing a heavy, green dress and extending her hand to Arnolfini. Arnolfini has his hand raised in what appears to be a gesture of blessing. He may be about to lay his hand upon the open, outstretched palm of his young wife. Arnolfini faces the spectator, although his gaze itself is averted; Giovanna Cenami's eyes are meekly lowered. She is carrying the fur-lined train of her dress bunched up in front of her. This has caused some critics to see the swelling contours of her belly as a sign that the lady is pregnant. However, this was no more than a ritual gesture, consistent with contemporary conventional attitudes towards the family and marriage and intended to symbolise fertility, for the double portrait was painted on the occasion of the couple's marriage. The painting is a visual record of the event; indeed it even acts as a wedding certificate, since it documents the artist's attendance and consequent witness of the ceremony in the inscription on the far wall ("Johannes de Eyck fuit hic"). Along with a second witness, van Eyck is reflected in a convex mirror on the same wall. The mirror enlarges the room and is framed by ten painted scenes from the Passion. It was still customary in the fifteenth century for bride and bridegroom to promise marriage without the presence of a priest. The "dextrarum junctio" -joining of right hands - and the bridegroom's pledge were considered legally binding.
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (detail)
The use of the inscription illustrates a growing tendency to document legal transactions in writing, a development which accompanied the adoption of Roman Law. The inscription should therefore not be understood as functioning here simply as a signature. It had a real testimonial force, as in the signing of a official register.
Van Eyck depicts this early bourgeois interior with its wooden floor as a thalamus, or inner, nuptial chamber, adding, by his faithful rendering of objects in the room, a number of hidden meanings, a theological and moral commentary on the event taking place. Thus the everyday convex mirror is a "speculum sine macula" (an immaculate mirror), signifying the purity of the Virgin and the virgin purity of the bride, who, according to contemporary tracts on marriage, would be expected to remain "chaste" as a married woman. In the foreground, the dogalways a symbol of devotion - stands for conjugal fidelity. The red alcove to the right, an allusion to the Song of Solomon, symbolises the bridal chamber. The cork clogs on the left, evidently removed by the bridegroom and casually left lying on the floor, are a reference to the Book of Exodus ("Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground", Exodus 3, 5). The burning candle in the chandelier, a wedding candle, cites traditional Annunciation iconography. It underlines the Mariological character of the painting. Addressed specifically to women, Mariolatry was a constitutive factor in fifteenth-century conjugal mores. The apples lying on the window-sill are an allusion to the Fall and a warning against sinful behaviour. The switch hung from the wooden paneling is an etymological pun on the Latin words "virga/virgo", and serves to emphasise the motif of virgin purity. Its counterpart in folklore was the "rod of life", a symbol of fertility, strength and health, with which the bridegroom was ritually beaten in order to ensure the couple was blessed with a large number of children.
Together with a second witness, van Eyck is reflected in a convex mirror on the wall. The reflection creates the illusion that the room extends to a point behind the spectator.
It was customary in the fifteenth century for bride and bridegroom to promise marriage without the presence of a priest. The joining of hands and the bridegroom's oath were legally binding.
The burning candle in the chandelier is a traditional motif in Annunciation iconography.
The dog, a symbol of devotion since time immemorial, stands for conjugal fidelity,
while the apples on the window-sill are an allusion to the Fall and a warning against sin.
The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin
Musee du Louvre, Paris
The painting shows Chancellor Nicolas Rolin (1376?—1462), born at Autun into bourgeois circumstances, who, entrusted with setting up an early absolutist system of state administration under Philip the Good, had attained the high rank of a Notable. Van Eyck - who had entered the Duke's service as "varlet de chambre" (valet) in 1425, which in fact meant he was court painter — has portrayed him attired in an opulent, brownish, mink-trimmed brocade coat with a raised pomegranate pattern in gold thread. Rolin is viewed from the side, though not in full profile, kneeling at a cushioned table spread with a turquoise cover. His eyes are directed towards the Virgin sitting opposite him with the naked Child on her lap, while the Child is in the act of blessing Rolin. This arrangement is unusual.
The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin (detail)
On becoming Chancellor, Nicolas Rolin (1376?—1462), a lawyer from Autun, had risen to the highest public office at the Burgundian court. Rolin was elevated to the nobility by the Duke. The "noblesse de robe" to which Rolin belonged distinguished itself from military knighthood in that its members were lawyers, scholars and civil servants.
In his Virgin with Canon van der Paele, van Eyck painted a majestic Virgin, enthroned in full-face view, presenting her as the virtual object of his adoration. Here, however, the side view objectifies the Virgin so that the spectator acts as the witness of her meeting with the Chancellor. Van Eyck has minutely recorded the signs of aging in Rolin's face. The folds and wrinkles are no less precisely rendered than the arteries at Rolin's shaved temples, however. Van Eyck, although he was not — despite Vasari's later claim - the actual inventor of oil-painting, brought a previously unparallelled mastery to this new art, revealing, by means of repeated glazing, the throbbing life beneath Rolin's skin. Van Eyck does not present the face as a vehicle for the expression of feelings, but records the quiddity of each object: a visual nominalism, with precise syllabic counterparts for every "thing" that met his gaze. However, his radical empiricism did not preclude use of the kind of allegory found in late scholastic biblical exegesis.
On the contrary, almost every detail of the painting contains a spiritual allusion. This is borne out by the triple-arched loggia through which the interior gives onto a crenellated courtyard-garden. Reliefs decorating architectural features on the right of the loggia show scenes from the Old Testament: the expulsion from Paradise, Cain and Abel and Noah's drunkenness. The scene on the capital at the right depicts the justice of Trajan. These motifs, in other words, refer to the Fall, and to a paragon of virtue. The enclosed garden with its blossoms - roses, irises and lilies traditionally symbolised the Virgin - alludes to the "garden enclosed" (hortus conclusus) in Song of Solomon (4, 12), equated metaphorically in medieval exegesis with the Virgin Mary. The peacocks suggest Paradise. Two men, one of whom seems to be gazing into the receding landscape, are shown looking over the parapet. The one on the right is wearing a red, scarfed headdress, presumably similar to that worn by van Eyck himself - a hypothesis prompted by van Eyck's Man in a Red Turban (London), thought to be a self-portrait, and by the metallic reflection on St. George's armour in his Paele-panel. Although the landscape is realistic in the Chancellor Rolin painting, it is not, in fact, an authentic scene. Instead, van Eyck has used various sketches to construct an ideal "panoramic landscape" with an alpine massif disappearing into the distant, atmospheric blue.
Man in a Red Turban
Emil Kieser has shown convincingly that the bridge over the river, on which a tiny cross may be made out, should be seen in connection with the murder of Philip the Good's father, John the Fearless, on the bridge at Montereau on 10 Sept. 1419. The Treaty of Arras, concluded by Rolin on 21 Sept. 1435, contained a decree to the effect that a cross in memory of the assassination be erected on the bridge. The years between the murder and the recently concluded Treaty can be read in the number of floor-tiles between the arcade and the picture-plane.
A bridge can be seen in the middle distance of a landscape extending to an Alpine skyline. Van Eyck probably wished to refer to some historical event. John the Fearless was murdered on the bridge at Montereau in 1419.
The terraced garden with its roses, irises and lilies, symbols of the Virgin,
is an allusion to a passage in Song of Solomon:
"A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed"
(4, 12).


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York City freeze ticket prices for next season
York City news
YORK City are freezing all ticket prices for next season, with the costs reverting to those of the 2018/19 campaign.
Last month, the club announced that prices were to rise for 2019/20 but that decision has now been revised.
A statement on the club's website explained that the rise was as a result of the costs associated with the new Community Stadium ticketing service. Those could no longer be justified, however, with the number of games expected to be played at Bootham Crescent, with the new ground beset by delays.
There will still be "a small booking fee" for games at the Community Stadium.
Season ticket application forms for the 2019/20 season are available to download from the club's website. Forms and payment will be accepted at the club shop from 11am tomorrow, and supporters have until July 19 to take advantage of the 'early bird' discount.
The statement reads: "York City Football Club's board of directors has now reviewed and frozen all ticket prices for the forthcoming 2019/20 season.
"The original decision to increase prices (announced on May 31) was necessary to cover booking fees associated with the new online ticketing service at the Community Stadium.
"However, with an increasing number of next season's home games now set to be played at Bootham Crescent - amid ongoing uncertainty surrounding the date of the move to the new Community Stadium - those increases were no longer justifiable and we felt it only fair on supporters to revert back to last season's prices.
"There will still be a small booking fee payable for matchday tickets purchased for games at the new Community Stadium in the 2019/20 season (the booking fee is an operational procedure required for the online ticketing service at the new Community Stadium).
"The club wishes to apologise for any inconvenience caused and shares the frustration of our supporters.
"The delay in moving to the Community Stadium and the delay in generating season ticket income continues to put pressure on the club's finances and imminent cash flow.
"Staff at the club have also spent a great deal of time and effort in preparing for the online sale of season tickets.
"Please note, the freeze on ticket prices applies to both season tickets and matchday tickets.
"Only matchday tickets for games at the Community Stadium will incur a small rise in price, in order to cover booking fees.
"On completion of the new Community Stadium, season ticket holders will receive a new 'season ticket card' which will replace their existing season ticket booklet at no additional cost. All information held by the club will be transferred automatically to the card entry system for remaining home fixtures.
"Season ticket holders will also be given an opportunity, at that stage, to choose corresponding seats in the new stadium."

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Simmonds (lower body) will not play in Monday's game against Dallas, and is considered "week-to-week".
Boyle (abdomen) will not play in Monday's game against Dallas, and is considered "week-to-week".
Smith scored the game-winning goal in overtime Saturday in Game 2's 2-1 win over the Stars.
Coach Peter Laviolette has no updates on Simmonds (leg) following the team's 2-1 overtime win over the Stars on Saturday, Brooks Bratten of the Predators' official site reports.
Jarnkrok set up both Nashville goals Saturday in Game 2's 2-1 overtime win over Dallas.
Rinne made 22 saves in a 2-1 overtime win over Dallas in Game 2.
Simmonds went back to the locker room after testing out his leg during Saturday's Game 2 versus the Stars, John Glennon of The Athletic reports.
Simmonds (leg) returned to Saturday's Game 2 versus the Stars, Brooks Bratten of the Predators' official site reports.
Simmonds exited Game 2 versus the Predators on Saturday with a leg injury, Brooks Bratten of the Predators' official site reports.
Grimaldi (upper body) will play Saturday, Adam Vingan of The Athletic reports.
Boyle (illness) will not dress Saturday, Adam Vingan of The Athletic reports.
Rinne will be in net for Game 2 on Saturday versus Dallas, Brooks Bratten of the Predators' official site reports.
Rinne will patrol the crease in Wednesday's Game 1 against the Stars at home, Paul Skrbina of The Tennessean reports.
Salomaki (upper body) is not in the projected lineup for Game 1 of the conference quarterfinals opposing the Stars on Wednesday, Adam Vingan of The Athletic reports.
Grimaldi (upper body) isn't expected to be in the lineup for Wednesday's Game 1 against Dallas, Adam Vingan of The Athletic reports.
Rinaldo (shoulder) was recalled from AHL Milwaukee on Sunday.
Grimaldi (upper body) won't play in Saturday's game versus the Blackhawks, Brooks Bratten of the Predators' official site reports.
Rinne will defend the home cage in Saturday's game versus the Blackhawks, Brooks Bratten of the Predators' official site reports.
Fortunato signed a two-year, entry-level contract with Nashville on Friday.
Craggs signed a two-year, entry-level contract with the Predators on Friday.


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"The Arms Control Association's work is an important resource to legislators and policymakers when contemplating a new policy direction or decision."
– General John Shalikashvili
former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Experts Urge Obama Administration Review U.S. Cluster Munitions Policy and Support New Global Treaty
Conventional Arms Control and Trade
Beyond the Headlines: Redefining Responsibility in the Arms Trade
Landmines / Cluster Munitions
Mine Ban Treaty Members Reaffirm Goals
Explosive Weapons Declaration Gains Momentum
(November 1, 2019)
Contact: Jeff Abramson, 202-463-8270 x109; Daryl Kimball, 202-463-8270 x107
(Washington, D.C.): President-elect Obama's national security team will have to grapple with a number of issues, including U.S. policy on certain types of conventional munitions that harm civilians. An early decision will be how to respond to the new Convention on Cluster Munitions, which 100 or more world leaders are expected to sign beginning tomorrow in Oslo.
The new international treaty, which may enter into force as soon as six months after the signing ceremony, will ban the use of weapons that have indiscriminately killed and maimed thousands of noncombatants and continue to pose a hazard today, in some cases more than 30 years after their initial use. The Bush administration has opposed the treaty despite the commitment of the United Kingdom and most other NATO allies to adopt the convention, to discontinue use of cluster munitions, and to destroy their stockpiles.
"Obama's new national security team has the opportunity to shift U.S. policy on these and other important humanitarian and security issues,"said Jeff Abramson, conventional weapons analyst with the Arms Control Association.
"The president-elect has indicated a willingness to support international initiatives to limit harm to civilians caused by conventional weapons. As president, Obama can begin by reexaming recent Defense Department decisions on cluster munitions with an eye toward signing the convention in 2009 and bringing the United States inline with the new global consensus," Abramson urged.
Answers to frequently asked questions on cluster munitions are available at http://www.armscontrol.org/pressroom/CCMFAQ.
Resource Library:
MIT Professor Areg Danagoulian and Colleagues Voted 2019 Arms Control Persons of the Year
2019 Arms Control Person(s) of the Year Nominees Announced
Proposed Change to U.S. Weapons Export Rules Is Bad Policy
Iran's Latest Step Is a Step in the Wrong Direction


Anthony S. Bianchi, M.D. was born and raised (for the most part) near Denver, Colorado. When he was very young, his family lived in Italy for a short time where his father was stationed as a physician for the U.S. Army. As a boy, Tony Bianchi enjoyed a fun and active youth in Colorado. He was an avid youth soccer player and lettered in tennis at Cherry Creek High School. Tony attended college at the University of California in Santa Barbara and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Biopsychology as a member of the Psi Chi International Honor Society. Tony was accepted to both the University of Colorado and the University of Texas Medical Schools. Upon being granted a four-year academic scholarship, he relocated and earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center Houston and was recognized with the Best Medical Student Award. Dr. Anthony S. Bianchi chose a combined internship and surgical specialty residency program at St. Joseph's Hospital/CTMF Breckenridge in Houston. During this time, he was awarded the Chief Resident Teaching Award, Top Resident Award by the American Association of Laparoscopists, and earned his Microsurgical Certification.
After his residency and specialty training, Dr. Bianchi created a thriving, successful private medical and surgical practice in Southern California, providing primary care as a Board-Certified surgical specialist to patients. His surgical expertise was well sought after and highly esteemed. Dr. Bianchi was recognized with numerous Patient's Choice Awards, Compassionate Doctor Recognitions, and an On-Time Doctor Award. He was regarded as a leader within the medical community and local hospital. Dr. Bianchi simultaneously worked for the local community health clinic as a services director. He was Chairman of the Peer Review Committee, Chief of Staff for a two-year term, and an appointed member of the Board of Trustees for the local community hospital. In recognition of his years of committed service to the hospital, in 2013, Dr. Bianchi was awarded the Fallbrook Healthcare District Recognition and Appreciation Award.
Desiring a change in the intensity of his schedule and on-call requirements, Dr. Bianchi began seeking a better work-life balance. In 2014, he joined a successful occupational medicine practice in Central Valley, California as a Physician and Administrative/Clinical Director. He thoroughly enjoys his current practice of occupational medicine; including pre-employment physicals, diagnosis and treatment for work related injuries, diabetes, high blood pressure, thyroid disorders, and other disease and illness. He is passionate about providing the best and most effective patient care in the occupational medicine setting. With his surgical experience, he is skilled at repairing complex lacerations, and administering virtually "pain-free" trigger-point injections. Dr. Bianchi is skilled at P&S reporting and is certified by the NRCME to perform DOT exams. His professional interests include comprehensive wellness, occupational medicine, men's health, and the emerging science of genomics related to precision medical diagnostics and treatment. His healthcare philosophy is that everyone has value and should be offered the best care with compassionate dignity and kindness.
Dr. Bianchi is fluent in Spanish and has enjoyed a number of service oriented activities over the years including coaching his children's soccer teams, going on mission trips, volunteering with Riverside Recovery Resources, and serving as a voluntary recovery coach and mentor for individuals and executives. Dr. Bianchi is married and has two adult children. He and his wife sponsor three children from various countries and are actively involved in serving within their local church. They enjoy traveling, soccer, hiking, mountain biking, and reading. Dr. Bianchi loves music and enjoys playing the guitar and piano.
Dr. Bianchi started his first medical practice July 1999 in Southern California. He became known as the premier physician and surgical specialist in the Fallbrook and Temecula area. His busy practice grew, eventually including three additional providers and two office locations. After more than thirteen years of successful practice and some changes in lifestyle, he began to place a higher value on a more balanced quality of life and less call. He sold his practice and began exploring other specialties.
During this transition, Dr. Bianchi initially volunteered and was then offered a medical directorship position at Riverside Recovery Resources, a long-term residential (LTR) men's recovery facility.
In 2014, Dr. Bianchi was hired by a leading independent Occupational and Industrial Medicine practice in Frenso, California. It was an excellent fit which provided him with additional specialty training related to men's health issues in a high-volume setting. The practice has built an excellent provider team, offering exceptional medical services, care, and treatment for the entire central valley.
Most mornings Dr. Bianchi wakes up, enjoys a cup of coffee (with little bit of whipped cream) along with his wife and he typically does two to three devotionals at breakfast. He then heads off to his office, which he has intentionally made sure is close-by to minimize his commute. He usually arrives early to get a head-start on paperwork and put out any fires from the preceding day. By mid-day Dr. Bianchi has seen twelve to eighteen patients with a variety of ailments and injuries stemming from work accidents. He also performs employment and pre-employment physical evaluations for the more than five-thousand companies, which the practice contracts with. He will have typically sown up a laceration or two, read a few x-rays on perhaps some broken bones, and have helped navigate patients through the sometimes-rough waters of a workers' compensation claim. Nearly every day he enjoys lunch with his wife at their nearby home, and then he is back to seeing patients within the hour. His afternoon is spent much the same, while also assisting and guiding colleagues and other providers before he heads home after a full day. His evenings are spent serving in his local church, reading, or watching an episode of Longmire on television with his wife. On most days, he also makes the time to reach out to, and receive calls from, his family and friends.
An exciting trend within the field of medicine is a renewed emphasis and now acceptance of looking at the patients, not just as a physical, physiologic machine, but really as a whole-being needing bio, psycho, social, and spiritual wellness.
With Dr. Bianchi's many years of surgical experience, the critical skill of dictation and the ability to quickly navigate electronic medical records has proven to be a tremendous advantage for documenting patient care, charting, and various report requirements. This allows Dr. Bianchi to efficiently and productively navigate the challenges of a busy patient schedule.
Dr. Bianchi says that the worst job he ever had, was in many ways, the best job he ever had. He worked as a maid for a large hotel chain in Denver, Colorado, late in his teenage years. It was the worst job he ever had because he had to wake up so early (long before his friends were awake and working) in order to complete his daily job requirements of thoroughly cleaning sometimes filthy hotel rooms. He says it was also an amazing blessing, because in addition to learning the value of hard work, he also learned from his co-workers the value of having a joy-filled spirit in the midst of an unpleasant and demanding job. He looked at the fact that his co-workers' lives would be very much the same in the coming years and yet they were able to experience great joy and satisfaction in the work that they were doing. This made him very grateful to be able to move forward with his education and look forward to, quite frankly, an "easier life". In retrospect, he began to realize that "easy" does not mean satisfying or even good, and therefore he continued to work hard to learn, grow, change, and care for others.
If Dr. Bianchi were to start again he would hold onto the strong mentors that he was fortunate to have in his life. He would also choose to leave sooner, those relationships and situations, which were hurtful or unproductive.
One strategy that has always helped Dr. Bianchi grow in any practice that he has been a part of, is to show up 10 minutes early (as opposed to 5 minutes late). He also says it has been extremely important to look at every day as an opportunity to care and serve others, treat colleagues and patients with honesty and integrity, and always do his best. Dr. Bianchi says that "Always do your best" is one of The Four Agreements (by Miguel Ruiz) which he has posted in his office. These agreements serve as important daily reminders for him.
What is one failure you had as a business owner, and how did you overcome it?
Dr. Bianchi says that as a business owner, he failed to adequately oversee (at times) the unrealistic expectations of co-administrators and failed to keep those unrealistic expectations in check. While he admits to having goals that were too lofty at times, he still strongly relies on a foundation of common sense, hard work, research and development, and always utilizing wise and discerning counsel in making impactful decisions.
Dr. Bianchi goes on to say that having the wrong people in positions of power in your business, can have catastrophic consequences. He has learned that whether the people are well-intentioned or ill-intentioned, the power to make decisions for which another person will ultimately be responsible can be very dangerous and damaging. These are some important failures that he has learned well from, and doesn't plan on repeating.
Dr. Bianchi has always wanted to utilize his compassion, caring, experience, strength, and hope to assist individuals who are struggling to not only overcome health problems or reach fitness goals, but also who desire to achieve financial, spiritual, and other wellness goals. In other words, he would really enjoy developing a professional mentoring team or organization.
When Dr. Bianchi was 17-years-old, he sang at the Sidney Oprah House in Australia with his high school choir. His trip included touring New Zealand as well, where he stayed at a local farmer's home. He had the opportunity to watch him milk cows and herd sheep. He says that he will never forget the massive size and strength of his hands, which were matched only by the size and strength of his heart, spirit and kindness.
Another humorous tidbit that few people know about Dr. Bianchi is that later that same year, he was almost lured away from pursuing a career in medicine by the riches and fame of big business. A new company called Video Café had developed a business which combined the home delivery of both pizza and VHS movies. Anthony (Tony) Bianchi was hired by Video Café as a pizza maker. Shortly after, the manager of the food side of the store was fired and Tony was quickly promoted. Within 60 days they had offered him a full-time managerial spot and were wanting to fly him out of state to their corporate offices for training and a five-figure salary of $28k per year. As an 18-year-old, this was incredibly appealing to him. Needless to say, the conversation he had with his parents regarding this decision and his long-term future, was very interesting.
Many people may not realize the well-rounded interests and skills of Dr. Bianchi. He is an avid snow skier, has a life-long passion for soccer, and loves to play guitar and piano.
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Charles Sowa (Schifflange, 15 april 1933 – aldaar, 7 juli 2013) was een Luxemburgse snelwandelaar, die uitkwam op vier verschillende Olympische Spelen.

Loopbaan
Sowa's beste prestatie is een negende plaats op de 50 km snelwandelen tijdens de Olympische Spelen van 1964 in Tokio.

Na zijn snelwandelcarrière was Sowa actief als trainer en was bondscoach van Nederland en Luxemburg. Ook zijn zoon Marco Sowa was een snelwandelaar van internationaal niveau.

In 1964, 1967, 1971 en 1972 werd Sowa uitgeroepen tot Sportman van het Jaar in Luxemburg.

Luxemburgse kampioenschappen

Persoonlijke records

Palmares

20 km snelwandelen
 1960: 18e OS - 1:42.43,8
 1964: 16e OS - 1:36.16
 1968: 19e OS - 1:40.17,0
 1972: 18e OS - 1:36.23,8

50 km snelwandelen
 1960: 21e OS - 4:57.00,4
 1964: 9e OS - 4:20.37,2
 1968: 16e OS - 4:44.45,2
 1972: 10e OS - 4:14.21,2

Onderscheidingen
Luxemburgs sportman van het jaar - 1964, 1967, 1971, 1972

Externe links

Profiel van Charles Sowa op de website van ALO
Charles Sowa overleden (Atletiekunie)

Luxemburgs atleet
Luxemburgs olympisch deelnemer
Snelwandelaar
Luxemburgs atletiekcoach

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6 Steps to Safely Switch Careers
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If you've been in the same industry for a while now but have been nursing a feeling that it isn't your true calling, you're not alone. The average American changes careers five-to-seven times in their lifetime, and 30 percent change jobs or careers every 12 months. This sort of frequent disruption might not be ideal for long-term stability, but a change now and then can be ideal in the pursuit of living your best life.
With the pandemic in full swing, many industries are having a tough time staying afloat. Perhaps your industry is one of them, and to look out for your future and the future of your family, you may be thinking it's time to pivot your career.
Related: 7 Sure Signs Now Is the Time for a Career Change
Whatever your situation may be, making a career change can be a scary leap. But when you're prepared, you can handle anything. Here are six tips for preparing for a career change and starting down a more authentic path.
1. Don't immediately quit your job
It's one thing to strike while the momentum's hot and quite another to remove your safety net precisely when you need it. If you're fortunate enough to be employed, maintain that income while you plan the perfect exit by staying at your current job while searching for a new one.
Some people believe that quitting a job without any other prospects is the kick in the butt necessary to get serious about getting hired, but that's too risky right now. While it may make you feel nostalgic for your college days, it's no fun living off of ramen noodles and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as an adult.
2. Research the industry you're interested in
What it takes to get your foot in the door in a new industry depends on the industry. Some jobs are going to require specific certifications or even another degree. Research what the expectations are so you've got a realistic chance of succeeding.
Related: Have a Business Idea? 6 Ways to Research Your Industry
Another key area of research is the salary. Check statistics around the average salary base of the role you're considering to get an idea of whether it's financially realistic for maintaining your lifestyle or if you'll need to budget for a pay cut.
3. Find a mentor in the field
Finding a success story in the field you're pursuing can inspire you to keep going even when it seems difficult. Tracking someone's career trajectory will also give you a blueprint that you can use to plan your route.
Find a thought leader in the field and find out as much as you can about their professional experience. Maybe they're a guest contributor and write for credible publications about the industry you're interested in. If so, read the content they're creating and check out their company website. We're all different and have our unique paths to follow, but this approach will give you a real-world look at what it takes to succeed.
4. Complete the necessary coursework
If you need classes for industry-specific knowledge or to qualify for jobs in the field you're interested in, you're going to have juggle coursework with your existing work schedule. It's not easy, but it's a necessary balance you'll have to find. Look for night classes, weekend classes, workshops, and other learning opportunities that will allow you to learn what you need to without adding full-time school on top of full-time work. And if you have to go full-time, take solace in the fact that many people have done it before you and succeeded.
Related: How Online Learning will Change the Education System post Covid-19
If you have a spouse or partner that is willing to carry the bulk of your financial load, make sure you plan and prepare for a reduced household income.
5. Freshen up your resumé
If you're switching careers, your current resumé isn't likely to reflect the right skills and experience you'll need for your desired role. But every job you have, whether it's related to your preferred one or not, teaches you skills that prepare you to take on new challenges.
Get creative with your resumé, reworking it to show how your current skills will make you a star in your new career. Then, have someone you trust to review your resumé to see if there's anything you're missing.
6. Search for available jobs
Most of the career change process involves searching for and applying for jobs. Don't settle for job postings that don't sound like they'll be an excellent fit for your strengths or won't align with what you want. Consider pay and benefit options so you can be as selective as possible. If you apply for every job in the field you want to be in, you could land a position that isn't a great fit and you'll be back at square one.
Related: Are You Looking to Make a Career Switch?
Once you find a job to apply for, give your resumé another once-over to ensure the skills you're highlighting align with the skills the job posters are looking for. Don't be discouraged if it takes a while to build momentum in your search. The right opportunity is out there; you just have to keep applying.
What if I want to start my own business?
If changing jobs means starting your own business, then you will also need to put together a business plan to put your thoughts into actionable steps and determine what you want to achieve.
Make sure you research the market to understand any potential risks involved — there's always a risk when starting your own business. And accurately identify the possible business mistakes you could make. You can never prepare enough, so take the time to look into what starting your own business entails. It will ensure that the decisions you make are the right ones.
Embarking on a new journey is filled with fear, uncertainty, and excitement. But as long as you're prepared, your path will be a little less bumpy and a little more worth it. Best of luck. You got this!
By: Jonathan Herrick
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Job Rejection Doesn't Have to Sting
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When you apply for a job at your dream company, you're hoping, maybe even praying, that you'll be successful in the interview process and receive an offer. After all, it's the company you've always wanted to work for. So when you don't get an offer, it can feel devastating — but it doesn't have to. Here's why rejection happens and how you can learn from it to position yourself for success in future interviews.
Why rejection happens
The second you receive the rejection phone call or email, you immediately try to figure out why. But the answer may be elusive, especially if the person on the other end doesn't give you much information to go on. There are a few possible reasons why you didn't receive an offer:
There was a "better" candidate.
This may seem like the most obvious reason, but "better" doesn't always mean better than you. Sometimes it just means different. Once a job is posted and candidates are interviewed, hiring managers sometimes realize they could use skills or experience they didn't know they needed.
Or, your skills and capabilities may be right in line with what the hiring manager needs, but there are always intangibles that aren't listed, like wanting a product manager who has worked on a novel product or wanting someone who is insatiably curious about the world around them. If another candidate demonstrates those intangibles during the interview process, they may be "better" because they can contribute and bring value in a different way.
You didn't tie your skills and experience to the role.
You may have all the necessary capabilities and experience, but the hiring manager needs to understand how you'll apply them to this particular role. Too many people focus on making sure they talk about their accomplishments but ignore the actual job description. Truly understanding the role and articulating how you would apply your skills and capabilities to it is key to helping the hiring manager visualize how you can bring value to the team and organization.
You have a mismatch with the culture.
This doesn't mean you're a bad person! Every company has a specific culture. For example, if your success has come from making unilateral decisions but this company makes all decisions through consensus, you may become frustrated quickly. The last thing a hiring manager wants to do is hire someone who doesn't fit in with the team or company culture.
While you may believe you can adapt to fit the environment, the hiring manager will predict your success based on how you describe your work style and preferences during the interview process. There is nothing you can do if they don't believe you'd fit in with the team or overall company culture.
The job scope changed.
Once a job is posted, changes at the company could change the scope of the job — for example, maybe someone departed the team or there was a reorganization of functions. While a company should update and repost the job accordingly, not all of them do.
The job was paused or cancelled.
In uncertain economic times, hiring for new roles can be placed on hold or even canceled as companies figure out their short- and long-term strategies. While the job may still be posted, a company may not be interviewing for it or may stop the process after you've already interviewed. Some companies have been rescinding offers after making them, essentially firing employees before they even start. It's not personal or a reflection of your skills and capabilities — it's the business resetting itself.
Learning from rejection
Rejection stings, and not knowing why you were rejected can cause you to engage in negative self-talk about your skills and capabilities. Here are some ways to learn from the rejection and move forward:
Understand that the perfect job isn't always perfect.
It's normal to romanticize a job and company based on what we read or hear about them. And part of an interviewer's role is to sell you on the job and make it seem amazing and exciting from their first contact with you.
If you weren't selected for whatever reason, use the rejection to reset that romanticized vision and remind yourself that no company or job is as perfect as described. To get a more realistic view of a prospective employer next time around, take time in advance to think through deeper questions than, "Tell me about the culture."
For example, during your next interview, ask the hiring manager, "Can you give me an example of how you developed an employee?" or "Is there one common thread to being a stellar performer on your team?" This will help you assess whether a company will take your development seriously and how the company assesses and appreciates its employees.
Reflect on your values.
When we're desperate to find a job — any job — we don't focus on what's important to us and whether the role will contribute to our overall fulfillment. Take a step back and reflect on the job you didn't get and whether it truly aligned with your values. This exercise will help ensure that when you do land a job, it will be fulfilling.
Sharpen your interviewing skills.
Going through any interview process allows you to practice your interviewing skills and messaging for the next job interview. When I was trying to change careers from entertainment lawyer to human resources professional, I was asked why I wanted to make the change. I would say, "I want to help people." One hiring manager said that's not the role of HR; the role is to align people's skills and capabilities to business goals. I knew that but had never said it in an interview.
So, in the next one, I changed my core messaging and landed the job. Think back to the questions you were asked and how your counterpart reacted to your answers. Which responses landed and which didn't? Did the hiring manager rephrase what you said more succinctly? Do you have an opportunity to make your message crisper or change your messaging completely?
Incorporate feedback.
If you can obtain feedback from your interviewer, you'll have some actionable information to apply to your next interviews. This is a neutral party's perspective on how you were perceived in that short period of time they interacted with you. Even if you don't agree with the feedback or it doesn't resonate with who you are, consider the 2% rule: What if 2% of it was true? Use the feedback as fuel to advance your skills or change your interview approach.
Develop resilience.
The more you're rejected, the more resilient you'll become as you learn to recover from the disappointment. After finding out you didn't get the job, figure out what kind of self-care you need to heal — for example, doing an activity you're great at and enjoy, like bowling, drawing, or exercising. Knowing how you feel in that moment and what it takes to move forward will give you a formula you can apply when faced with any failure.
Hiring managers can sense negative energy during the interview process. Making rejection a part of your learning will help reframe it as taking one step closer to job that's right for you. The quicker you learn what helps you move forward, the easier it will be to look at the next round of interviews as the next challenge to conquer.
By: Marlo Lyons
Marlo Lyons is a certified career coach and strategist, HR executive, and the author of Wanted – A New Career: The Definitive Playbook for Transitioning to a New Career or Finding Your Dream Job.
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A job rejection can be hard, especially if you are trying to break into a competitive job market. It can make you feel deflated, angry, and cause you to lose your motivation and desire to keep interviewing for other career opportunities. We understand that and have experienced this disappointment throughout our careers as well.
However, it's important not to let a job rejection keep you from applying for other opportunities. So, this week, we've put together some of our best advice on how you can not only deal with job rejection but also use it to improve yourself and future career prospects.
#1 Take some time out and get your emotions in place
After any rejection, you are likely to have many different emotions, and therefore we encourage you to take some time out to allow you to process your feelings.
Being rejected doesn't mean that your attributes and professional qualifications aren't remarkable. When it comes to hiring, employers weigh numerous considerations. Many factors may have led to your job rejection, including being under-qualified or over-qualified, your attitude towards the job and the company, your interview experience and many more.
Often some of these factors may be beyond your control. You have to understand that in today's competitive job market, there are often hundreds of applicants for a role, so for an employer to pick just one person is a very challenging decision. As a result, even if you are not offered the job, it may not mean that the employer didn't like you.
Whenever you receive a rejection, start by thanking the employer for their time and follow by asking if they can give you some feedback. If feedback is not an option, begin by evaluating how you thought you did in the interview. Did you cut off the interviewer? Did you not answer questions as well as you could do?
By identifying areas of weakness, you can then focus on learning how to improve yourself in these areas.
#2 Understand that you are not alone
Every day, countless others face job rejection. If you are dealing with job rejection, the best thing you can do is reach out to others who are currently, or have previously been in similar situations.
This way, you can share your experience and emotions and get mutual support that will be enormously beneficial. They can tell you how to deal with job rejection, and you can ask them what they did to overcome this phase.
There are also various books, podcasts and youtube videos on how to handle job rejection. Hearing how others were able to bounce back from a significant job rejection can help you feel less alone and more confident when you are ready to start reapplying again.
#3 Send a thank you email to the interviewer the day you get the job rejection mail
Sending a thank-you email after a job rejection sounds odd. However, it can help your career in the long run. You can use your thank you letter as an opportunity to build your network, receive feedback and ask to be considered for future opportunities.
After you have received the outcome of your interview, respond by thanking the employer for their time and giving you insight into the company. You can also highlight that although you are disappointed to have not been offered the role, you are excited to see how the company develops and would like to be considered for any future opportunities that may become available. Lastly, you can ask for feedback so that you can find out what you did well and areas you may need to improve.
By taking a few minutes out of your day to write this email, you will leave your interviewer with a positive impression of yourself and therefore increase your chances of receiving constructive feedback or even the possibility of being considered for another role in the future
#4 Think about what you could have done differently
After every interview, sit down for a few minutes and consider what you thought you could do better. This could be from how you answered their questions to your presentation skills and even your posture.
If you felt that you were a bit shaky with your presentation skills, work on presenting to others before your next interview to help reduce your nerves. The same idea applies to answering interview questions, write down some of the questions that you struggled with and do some research into how you may have been able to respond better to them. By doing this, you will create stronger responses that you can call upon in your next interview.
The point of thinking about what you could have done differently is not so you can beat yourself up over what you did wrong, but so that you can learn from it. Take each interview and each job rejection as an opportunity to grow stronger for the next interview.
#5 Focus on your strengths
Although you didn't get the role, it doesn't necessarily mean that you did not have any areas that you excelled in. So, take some time to reevaluate what you thought went well in the interview. If you were able to receive feedback, ask what areas they believed you did well in. It's just as important to focus on your areas of strength as it is to focus on your areas of weakness.
By focusing on your strengths and highlighting them in future interviews, you'll be able to show employers why you're the best candidate. It can also help you improve your interviews and even help you land your dream role….To be continued..
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The Psychological Toll of Wanting Your Kid To Be Perfect
It's called "other-oriented perfectionism," and it can have a negative effect on children. Here's why it happens.
Joliene Trujillo-Fuenning, who lives in Denver, Colorado with her two kids, ages 3 and 22 months, has some pretty clear perfectionist tendencies. If she sends an email with a typo in it, she says, "It will drive me nuts for a solid week or two." After her husband cleans the bathroom, she has to fight the urge to criticize. (Sometimes she'll just clean it again.)
And when it comes to her 3-year-old's education, Trujillo-Fuenning says, "I have been very much struggling with the fact that she doesn't want to write letters," and finds herself thinking, "You are supposed to be at this point by three and a half or four, and if you don't do it, you're never going to."
What Trujillo-Fuenning struggles with is something called other-oriented perfectionism. (You may have seen a shorter piece I wrote about the phenomenon for the Atlantic back in July.) Other-oriented perfectionism bears similarity to self-oriented perfectionism, when a person puts tremendous pressure on themselves to be perfect and then self-flagellates when they can't be.
It's also a little bit like socially prescribed perfectionism, where one internalizes the need to be perfect thanks to perceived pressure from others. The big difference is that with other-oriented perfectionism, unrealistic expectations are directed at, well, others.
When a parent sets exacting standards for their child and assumes a critical attitude, it can change how they parent (to their child's detriment) and leave the parent bitter, resentful, and sometimes even wishing they'd never had children. That's particularly problematic in light of new research suggesting that both parental expectations and parental criticism have been on the rise.
The impulse behind child-oriented perfectionism comes mostly from early life experiences and societal forces outside individuals' control, but understanding — and interventions — can help thwart it, improving the wellbeing of both parent and child.
Natalie Dattilo, Ph.D., a psychologist at Brigham & Women's Hospital and instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, has a patient roster made up mostly of young doctors, some of whom are the targets of other-oriented perfectionists who are "looking around and wondering why everybody [they] work with is incompetent." For a supervisor like that, she said, "There is going to be an over-reliance on control, especially wanting to control how people do things."
The other-oriented perfectionist seems self-assured. They always know the best way to do things and everything would be splendid if only others weren't so flawed.
"On the surface it looks like grandiosity," said Thomas Curran, Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychology at London School of Economics and Political Science, "but at root, it's really a profound insecurity about place in the world and whether you're worth something." The other-oriented perfectionist's judgment, he said, is actually just "my way of projecting the things that I dislike in myself onto other people."
People become other-oriented perfectionists in a variety of ways discussed in the book "Perfectionism: A Relational Approach to Conceptualization, Assessment, and Treatment." Oftentimes a cocktail of other types of perfectionism is to blame. Trujillo-Fuenning worries about her daughter's progress because she wants the best for her, but there's something more than that.
"I had a friend who pointed out that her language, her enunciation, her knowledge is pretty advanced for her age," she explained, "And immediately, I had this sense of like, 'Ha!' It had nothing to do with me! Yet you still have a part of your brain that's like, 'She speaks well. That means I did my job right.
If she reads early, I did my job right.'" The pressure Trujillo-Fuenning feels to be perfect requires being — and being perceived as — a perfect parent. "How you're doing as a parent is a reflection of who you are," she said, "There's no separation there in my head."
In a paper published in 2020, Konrad Piotrowski, Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychology at SWPS University in Poland, reported that both mothers and fathers there "tend to accept to a greater extent the mistakes and 'imperfection' of their children than those of their partner." But sometimes they don't.
John Lockner's experience supports that idea. He was a stay-at-home dad for years and told me, "I kind of still am," since he works part-time and spends the rest of it with his two teenage sons. "It's definitely a struggle not to be on them all the time," he said, but he knows that's more about him than them. "I never wanted to be a manager, because I know I would expect my employees to do their best, and it would be very hard for me when they don't," he told me.
As one of just a handful of dads involved at their old school, Lockner said, "I felt this pressure to be better, and because of that my kids needed to be better." With up-to-the-minute access to their assignments and grades through an online portal, he'd issue reminders on the drive to school: "You have to be sure to check on that and make sure it was turned in" or "You're going to ask for that extra credit, right?" And he'd grill them on test results as soon as they got into the car at pickup.
But now, he said, "I'm kind of working on myself, to let some of that go." What seems to be the key determinant is which relationship—the romantic one or the parental one—is more strongly associated with the parent's self-esteem. Those who hang their identity on their parental role, like Trujillo-Fuenning, are more likely to experience child-oriented perfectionism than those who do not, Piotrowski theorized.
The impact of other-oriented perfectionism on children
That's likely a good thing for his kids. Curran, the British perfectionism researcher, looked at a questionnaire that's been given to cohorts of young people for decades. He and his team found that current college students perceive that their parents were more expectant than past generations — which is problematic, because studies (old and new) tie a caregiver having performance-oriented goals to controlling, critical parenting.
Though the research is murky, because different forms of perfectionism both overlap and function in distinct ways, children of parents who are perfectionists likely have higher odds of developing psychological distress, including anxiety and depression. Even when the impact falls short of clinical classification, children whose parents expect them to be perfect often grow up in homes characterized by conflict and tension. "It's going to be a pressure cooker," Curran told me.
The end result is often another generation of perfectionists. A 2017 study of 159 father-daughter dyads found a tie between "controlling fathers who demand perfection" and perfectionist daughters. And Curran's own research has found that as parents' expectations and criticism have increased, so too have rates of adolescent perfectionism.
We make jokes about perfectionism. (Did you hear the one about the perfectionist who walked into a bar? Apparently, it wasn't set high enough.) But it's a truly stressful way to live, Dr. Dattilo said, "Always striving to prove that you are capable, to prove that you are worthy, prove that you are successful based on other people's evaluations."
It should come as no surprise then, that there are, in Curran's words, "huge, uncharacteristically strong correlations" between perfectionism and psychological distress, including anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and anorexia.
"The data's never that clean," he told me. Gayani DeSilva knows what it feels like to be one of those data points. "My parents really did put a lot of pressure on me as a kid to be perfect," recalled the child and adolescent psychiatrist who practices in Southern California. "I had to have straight As, couldn't have an A-minus."
When she carried a D in Calculus at one point, "I was so afraid that I actually thought that my parents were going to kill me." Now looking back with a therapist's eye, she said, "I couldn't imagine them actually physically harming me, I just knew that I was gonna die."
She internalized their exacting standards, "There was just no room for anything other than what they expected." And when she couldn't meet them, she said, "I faced all this guilt, like, 'Why couldn't I do it?'"
Josh McKivigan, a behavioral health therapist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, sees an impact at both ends of the economic spectrum. For kids of highly educated, well-off parents, he said, "You'd see them well put together, amazing grades, but behind the scenes, they're barely holding it together. The only type of school they feel is acceptable is an Ivy League. They say things like, 'I couldn't imagine going to UCLA.'"
McKivigan also works with a refugee population. With these kids, he sees pressure to make something of a parent's dangerous immigration journey. They end up saying, "I gotta make this right. I can't let them down," McKivigan told me.
But some kids don't develop perfectionism of their own, instead responding to a parent's pressure by rejecting their goals. After all, if someone is impossible to please, why bother trying?Nicole Coomber, Ph.D., an assistant dean at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, said research on motivation explains why.
"Autonomy is an important piece of this where you have to actually buy into whatever the goal is," she notes. Requiring that a child practice piano for hours each day when they'd rather be playing soccer "can really backfire," she added. Kids can end up feeling like their parent's project or product — and push back by quitting. No matter how much bravado accompanies that move, there's often also a sense of having let themselves and their parents down.
DeSilva failed her first year of medical school, she said, "because I just didn't know how to ask for help." After a car accident, she quit residency and then spent two years in therapy: "Once I was able to admit, 'I'm not perfect,' I was successful at pretty much everything I wanted to do, and I didn't have to be anxious about it. I knew I could do it, whereas before, when I had to be perfect, I was really insecure."
After she worked through her perfectionism, she said, "I was trying for my own standard, my own goals, my own desires, instead of somebody else's standard for me."
Other-oriented perfectionism is bad for parents too, but they can change
Child-oriented perfectionist tendencies aren't just bad for kids. Trujillo-Fuenning started to feel burned out by her high standards in the parenting realm. The cumulative effect of a thousand little maximizations, like "trying to make sure they were eating the right things every meal," became overwhelming and depleting. "To be honest, that's part of why I went back to work," she told me.
In his 2020 study, Piotrowski found that parents who target their children with other-oriented perfectionism tend to display higher levels of stress, dissatisfaction with parenthood, and feeling so burdened by the parental role that they regret parenthood entirely. He explained, "For mothers characterized by increased other-oriented perfectionism, family life is probably associated with many frustrations and stress, hence the focus on alternative visions of themselves that seem to be better than [being] a parent."
When she starts trying to work on literacy again, Trujillo-Fuenning said, "I have to pull back and remind myself, if she's fighting you, just let it go." The same thing goes for micromanaging her kids' appearance. "I'm catching my own insecurities of like, 'You don't look well put together. People are going to look at you and think I'm not taking care of you.'" But to avoid acting on those impulses requires "a constant mental check," she told me.
Every now and then Lockner's wife would say, "You're being too hard on them. You are expecting too much." But that doesn't seem to be what made him change. His sons are at an all-boys school now, and, Lockner said, "Being around other groups of dads made a difference. Listening to how they act, and how their kids are, made me think, 'Maybe I can ease up a little. My kids really are pretty good.'"
This sort of shift is what Curran sees happening in society as a whole—only in reverse.Other-oriented perfectionist parents aren't the only ones ratcheting up expectations and pressure. Some parents don't want to push, Curran said, "but they feel like they have to in this world where elite college is harder to access, where you basically have an economy where the middle class is downwardly mobile with increasing costs of living and stagnated income, and you've got chronic and increasing inequality."
And the pressure can be even more intense for parents like Eric L. Heard, author of "Reflections of an Anxious African American Dad." He described feeling "the need for immediate feedback" from his son's teachers: "I always held a fear that I would not address some problem and he would head down a well-worn road of destruction" for Black men, he wrote. "My mind was haunted by the crippling thought of how I would be judged …. I would wear a permanent brand … a large white D for being a deadbeat dad who couldn't save his son."
If you're a parent ruminating on the odds stacked against your child, it is rational to drive them to work harder, achieve more, and be better. Other parents react the same way, the result of which is a frenzied, fearful "rug rat race." Once that starts to kick in, Curran said, "it's really hard to stop, at a societal level. It creates an echo chamber where everybody's engaging in unhealthy behaviors and no one wins."
He doesn't just mean that we all lose when we succumb to perfectionism. It also just plain doesn't work. "Everybody's engaging in this frantic upward comparison, and no one gains an advantage," he said. "We just move the average of what's expected further and further. It's looking bad."
But individuals can push back against a trend of overwhelmed young people and parents who, like the old Lockner, feel no choice but to be "the bad guy." Now that he's backed off, he said, "It's easier on me. It's easier on them." They do more for themselves, and "they seem more willing to do stuff if I'm not on them all the time." Truth be told, he likes himself more now.
Therapists can help their clients get there. Dr. Dattilo would tell an other-oriented perfectionist they need to believe it when someone says, "I'm doing the best I can." Parents can interrogate their perfectionism in psychotherapy: Why is having a perfect child so important to me? Where did this need come from? And cognitive-behavioral therapists push people to fact-check their anxiety: What level of pressure is really necessary to prepare your child to live a good life? Is parental pressure truly the most effective way to forestall your fears? What will happen if you just back off?
When it came to parenting her son, DeSilva, the perfectionist-turned-psychiatrist, said she made a conscious decision. "I was going to raise him to have his own ideas and his own set of standards and really, for me to learn about and help him develop his strengths. And also, to really be comfortable with his weaknesses and vulnerabilities." That puts her at odds with her own parents. When it comes to her son's homework, they think, "It's your job.
You have to make sure his homework is done," she said. His grandparents even tell her to fix it for him "so it's correct." Instead, she explained to her son the consequences of not doing homework, or not doing it well, and let him decide. "He didn't like it that his teacher was upset with him. So the next time he did his homework, he did it as best he could."
Yet individual parents can't reverse course alone. Putting aside economic inequality for a minute, Curran said, "I think if the pressures of things like standardized testing — for young people to perform perfectly in school at such a young age — could be recalibrated downwards" it would take pressure off parents too. He called online grade portals "even scarier."
If kids were just allowed to learn, to be, without all the tracking, assessing, and ranking, maybe more parents would feel like they can afford to break — and encourage their kids to break — the link between one's accomplishments and one's worth.
As Curran talked, I realized that much of the ground we've covered in my Are We There Yet? column is more related than I'd thought. Pressure on parents, including around the "one right way" to parent, produces intensive parenting and lack of autonomy for kids, and it also contributes to parents' perfectionism and even abusive behavior, all of which lead to faltering mental health in adolescents, often with their own perfectionism as the mechanism. It's a perfect storm for stressed out, sexless parents who worry they don't measure up raising stressed out, helpless kids who worry they don't measure up. To borrow Curran's words, "It's all interconnected."
By Gail Cornwall
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Source: The psychological toll of wanting your kid to be "perfect" | Salon.com
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