… that people who go around saying “I’m a perfectionist” never are, while people who actually are perfectionists never go around saying it?
I have.
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It’s the same with pessimists. Anyone who goes around claiming their a pessimist is secretly an optimist….anyone who is actually a pessimist simply claims they’re a realist.
I’m an imperfectionist.
YES! Especially in job interviews! What is your biggest weakness question: I get this 80% of the time that “I’m a perfectionist”. Yet half of them have serious grammatical mistakes on both their cover letters and resumes.
If you have ever seen the movie Trainspotting you would remember that Spud is a “perfectionist.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U55SvF1P0aU
Language is a bit adult in that clip (so is the whole movie), but hopefully the humor can still be seen.
LOL, LOL, LOL so true. I’ve only ever met a single exception.
In that case…. I’m a perfectionist.
I agree on the surface, but I think it’s more accurate to say that people who say “I’m a perfectionist” are never perfect, and perfect people never say they are perfectionists.
Quite a few perfectionists aren’t very good at it. Like many musicians, just saying you’re a musician and even trying to make music every day doesn’t mean that music is any good.
Have you ever noticed that when you drop a freshly buttered perfectionist, they always land sunny side up?
I have.