[ROAST MY LESSON] Expanding a little on the subject on today's poll, this is a deep subject that I was talking to @Aimee Jardon in her community. Most people think that perfectionism is a positive thing. It's the cliche answer you give to the HR in a job interview when they ask you what your biggest flaw is. "Oh I loose too much time in the details, I got to make everything perfect." But beyond the cliches, this is indeed a flaw that can damage our career, our relationships and even our spiritual evolution. Not just a quircky thing you tell recruiters. A lot of people confuse perfectionism with diligence and caring. They are diferent things. The problem of perfectionists is not being able to tolerate flaws, not wanting to be perceived as flawed and being afraid of failing. And all of that is paralysing. You can spend hours and hours wanting to reach the most perfect result you can get, because you're diligent and realy care about your craft, and that's great. But if you're afraid of failure and obsessed with achieving absolute success, to the point of scraping and giving up on taking action, than that's a problem. It takes courage to suck at something, to face negative feedback, to see the flaws in our craft and learn from our mistakes, to realize we're not as good as we thought we were, but that's the only way we can grow. How many times did we ditch a great opportunity because we were afraid of being perceived as not enough? If we go deeper into philosophical / religious territory, wanting to be perfect (or even being perceived as perfect) is a fatal sin in itself. It's what caused the fall of Lucifer. The fallen angel wanted to be in the place of God, the only perfect being. The refusal of accepting our own flaws is a sickness of our ego. Being diligent is not being being afraid of flaws, being a perfectionist is. It's a sin derivated from vanity, and one that we all have to face and fight inside ourselves.