Counterpoint: I’ll simply give up if I can’t do it perfect right away. That’ll surely fill the gaping hole in my soul.
“you have to be ok with being really bad before you can become really good.”
“…or I can just never try!”
I’m starting to think 40 years of this mindset did some permanent damage to me and my future lol
The same moment I stop being right I start to learn.
I understand that being comfortable in one’s own skin means being comfortable with being average, but… Can’t I also be amazing and the best and like, so cool? Why can’t I be well adjusted and also perfection incarnate?
the solution is viewing yourself as the ultimate being that does everything perfect first try, and if ot6ger people say otherwise, then they simply don’t understand your perfection.
a god complex is what i am saying
I don’t have a problem with perfectionism IRL.
But the minute it’s a video game? I must be perfect and I also dramatically shift to Machiavellian thinking. Everything in the game is specifically for my benefit. Every item belongs to me. And if killing an NPC will give me more power, that dude is dead.
There was a ‘courage the cowardly dog’ episode about this exact thing
