[ckissick]

My wife is a perfectionist in everything she does, and that's usually not a good thing. It causes her to be late for everything, get stressed out over everything, and generally not enjoy life as much as she should.

I've always called myself a good-enoughist. In college if I figured I knew enough to get a B or C, I'd put down the books and head down to the beach. Of course, there were many great temptations at the beaches at UC Santa Barbara. There are some things I am a perfectionist about, though: restoring a car, acting in a play, and writing a novel. All three are things that potentially large numbers of strangers will witness. Perhaps I'm only a perfectionist when there's a possibility of some level of public embarrassment.


BTW, I've played guitar for 40 years and no amount of practice will get me anywhere near Jimi, or any other famous guitarist, for that matter. I'm good, but certainly not great.