Is anyone else a perfectionist?

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I'm quite creative and have done a lot of drawings/paintings and have also written stories but I am never satisfied. I have sold some of my art but it still feels like nothing I do is ever good enough. I compare myself to others all the time.

A trait I cannot afford in daily living and can never expect to receive at any given moment.
I live in a world full of narrower constraints. Shorter with time, lesser budgets, few chances to retry, etc.

I just try to have a standard or two for myself, and nothing very specific except 'enough'.
Yet it did not help that I don't have a good grasp of what 'enough' means except substandard.

Therefore I either ended up giving substandard due to constraints or near perfect if given a chance that there's no constraint.

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I'm a perfectionist when it comes to writing posts on internet forums. I get really anxious if there is a typo that I didn't notice at first but too late to correct it. And I get really frustrated when I see typos in other people's posts, especially in the title.

Sometimes I have an urge to tell them, like if they repeatedly spell a word incorrectly, but it appears to be socially inappropriate and people don't like it.

Yes, I am. I have some problems due to being a perfectionist.

- I cannot get started on many tasks because if I just casually start something, I feel I will end up doing it poorly.
- I tend to do things slowly so that I do them well.
- I find many tasks overwhelming because I have to do them very well.

To make it worse, most people pick up on my not being confident and decide that I don't know what I'm doing even when I actually do better than they do. It's very frustrating that so many people are overconfident, are very unaware of their poor performance, and don't hesitate to criticize others who actually perform better than they.

I seek perfection in things I feel passionate about. However, such means of achieving an end nearly always prove foolhardy. It is for this reason that I have been drawn to mindfulness and unconsciously I feel this is what drew me to becoming a teacher of the Alexander Technique.

In some ways yes, and it can be problematic and counterproductive. But then in other ways, I should really care more about what I'm doing and try harder. It would be nice to be able to find a consistent, happy medium with this kind of thing.

No, not for myself or others. I guess I'm of the, if it gets the job done, it gets it done, mindset. I used to like order, but the amount of times my plans, routines and order have been blown apart made me eventually give up on that one. I appreciate things that are well done, but I look towards the practical more and appreciate that even more.

I'm not a perfectionist. I do everything at 100 miles an hour. I'm quite good at doing things fast to a satisfactory standard though so I'm happy with that.