Thomas Curran

Thomas Curran is the author of the book The Perfection Trap. His TED talk on perfectionism has received more than three million views. His research has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Nw Scientist, and CNN, and he has appeared on numerous television and radio programs. He grew up in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, and studied at De Montfort University and the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, where he received his PhD in psychology. He taught at several universities in Australia and the UK before joining the department of psychological and behavioral science at the London School of Economics as a professor in 2019.