Are you a perfectionist?

I'm a lazy perfectionist. I.e. I don't like doing things badly but I don't like putting effort into things, so they just don't get done. I can't see any pros

 

It depends on what it is I'm doing.
If it's art, then it muussst be perfect or else the page gets ripped out of the sketchbook.
If it's how clean the house is, it's gotta be dustless and organised or else It'll bug me all day.
If it's a novel or short story, I've got to run through 30 times and re-write it a few times before I can leave it alone.
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If it's school work (/homework or whatever you'd call a homeschooled kid's work), then, screw it, I don't have much interest in the history of The Tudors of England anyway...

Pros and Cons of all this ?
Well, it means I'm happy with the end results of the work I care about.
But, if I don't have an interest in the work, I won't get far...

I'm 'half-perfectionist'. ┐(´∀｀)┌ With, maybe, just a tad of OCD...?

 

Yeah, I am. There is no pro, I hate it. Or wait, maybe there is... When you always pursue things to extreme ends, you're bound to learn a lot on the way. Knowlegde and skill are good to have. So yeah.

A big con is what Umi^ said above. If I'm not interested in something I often won't do it at all well. Especially with education this has been a problem for me. ^^

 

To me it depends on what i am doing. I would definately say the pros are that what i do is usually, hopefully up to a good standard and the cons are that it takes so long and i just do not have the energy but it bothers me if things do not match or are not perfect

 

I generally am, depending on what it is that I'm doing. If it is something that someone else is going to see, like my schoolwork for example, I need it to be perfect. My room on the other hand? It becomes an explosion of clothing that I have to make sure I get back under control every weekend or it'd look like I live in a hoarder house.

 

Not about everything, but yes, and it's usually more negative than positive. It gives me added stress. Sometimes, I feel like I waste a lot of time on details and specifics that don't really matter, so it's definitely not time efficient. It does push me to not slack off or just meet the minimum. I always put in everything. No cutting corners, except in a literal sense, if needed. O_O

 

No, im a make-sure-things-work-ionist!
Perfect is unachievable 8)

 

Not about everything. Not about most things to be honest.
But about my writing and about my art work yes.

 

Depends on what perfectionist means in some contexts. In schoolwork, not really. I do my best and am able to let it go. Yes I spend a lot of time, but no I wouldn't say I'm a perfectionist there.

In my own creative endeavours...I'm really very picky with myself the vast majority of the time. It once took me several months/a year to finish one of the songs I was working on because I kept going back to fix things and it never sounded perfect enough to me. (Eventually, I did finish, because I was driving myself up the wall with the consistent problem-picking.)

In life, evidence up to this point shows that I'll never truly be satisfied or it's just going to be very difficult for me to be fully content. Maybe that's me trying to make life as perfect as it can be, and it never quite is. Who knows if that's a good or bad thing.
Pro: it drives me to keep working every day towards something more or better. Con: ... well, there's little contentment that lasts long, at least from what I've seen. Also, that kind of perfection in life is impossible to achieve. Satisfication/contentment is more of an internal state, rather than a destination on a map or a practical point in life where everything is perfect. And yet, I can't stop pushing myself.

Is that a type of perfectionism? Maybe, in a way. But I've come to find a certain element of satisfication/motivation in the yet-to-be-achieved-satisfication (that made more sense in my head). I'm just working on it being a more healthy element of my life.

 

It depends what I'm doing! I would say I am a perfectionist when it comes to school, but apart from that I'm either just not very interested or not too perfect.

Being a perfectionist is annoying in most cases because it's like a voice in your brain saying, "You're not done yet." And this happens even when you're sure everything looks okay, but suddenly you realize it doesn't. It's annoying.

But it can also be good, like a satisfying sort of thing. I think it's different with everyone!

 

If its something I care about, like my music, it has to be what I wanted it to be right to the exact note, I once played around with one note for over 50 mins because its length wasn't what I was hearing in my head, and so was ruining the whole piece. I look back at it now and it wasn't even that big of a note in the piece, but that's just something I think I do so that I enforce quality into my work, and in that case think its a good thing.

Sometimes I can be a perfectionist with school work if I know if it counts towards something that will affect my future, eg I put a lot of effort into maths as If I don't pass that, I literally cant pass year 12 (senior year). The amount of extra work I put in on things that i don't really need/don't interest me stress me out, and so i think its bad in that case.

But for work that doesn't really matter to me, eg anything in history at the moment, or keeping an area clean in the way my parents appreciate it being (even thought it sometimes doesn't make any sense at all and is jus stupid), I really cant be bothered doing it. In this case, i don't really care

 

I could be sometimes. I have a little OCD when i got to bed i have to turn of my phone two times, one with it turning off by itself, the other i turn it off purposely, check the time and date,stare at my wallpaper, memorize them, and repeat it to myself once before i go to sleep. If i don't do this perfectly, i restart until i do, also the time can't change while i do it. If i mess up to much i'll just say " fuck it" and go to sleep. Also, i like to keep my bedsheets straight. I do something similiar to this when i watch youtube videos, just me?

Other than that, i have a VERY specific way of organizing books in my school bag: binder first, other book second, agenda third, and pencil case on top. And the books in my room have to be in a specific order.

But i'm not always perfectionist. If i draw in pen, for example, i wouldn't care to correct a mistake, i'll just wing it, same cones to homework, and writing stories for fun. But in singing, if i get a line wrong, i'll start the song all over again!

 

I was quite a perfectionist until I understood diminishing returns. Won't write a novel.

I think it's okay to fail a few times in the pursuit of success... it's better than getting nothing done, even if I feel out of my depth because I'm not a hardcore gamer

 

Sometimes but I try not to be to anal.

 

It depends. However, university has made me become a "Will this get me a decent mark? Yes? Okay, moving on" kinda guy.

 

I'm something of a perfectionist, and it's awful from a procrastination standpoint. If I can't do something correctly, just the way I want to, I usually won't do it at all. It's a dilly of a pickle most of the time.

 

I'm a bit of a perfectionist especially when it comes to artistic work, but a con of being a perfectionist is that if I'm not interested in it I don't do it well at all.

 

I was and it was stupid. I actually stopped drawing because of it, always thinking my drawings were never perfect. Well, they probably weren't but it was a stupid reason not to keep doing something I love, right?

 

If it's worth doing, then I'll make sure I do it right. If it's not worth it, then I'll do the minimum work and then concentrate on other work.