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During a project management training session several weeks ago, the topic of perfection came up. The training participants denied that they were perfectionists. They couched it in all of the usual ways – saying that they had ‘high standards’, and they were ‘not satisfied with mediocre’, and ‘didn’t want to settle’. They argued that being a perfectionist was a positive attribute, as they were never satisfied with the status quo and always looking to improve. I offered an alternative view