Posts Tagged ‘perfectionism’

When I was a child, I learned a rhyme that went like this:

“Good, better, best.
Never let it rest
Until your good is better
And your better best.”

I always liked that sentiment, because I am a bit of a perfectionist.  My feeling is that if you are going to do something, you might as well do the best job possible.

Needless to say, that attitude has sometimes resulted in me spending too much time getting something from “really good” to “excellent”, when I could have simply stopped at “really good” and it wouldn’t have made much of a difference to anyone.

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