---
title: "On perfectionism"
description: "Perfectionism is not a good name for the condition."
author: "Ghaith Ayadi"
site: "Verbatim"
collection: "Briefs"
url: "https://verbatim.ayadighaith.com/briefs/on-perfectionism-2"
date: 2024-02-27
updated: 2026-09-16
---
# On perfectionism

Perfectionism is not a good name for the condition.

The reason why perfectionists don’t recognize that they are perfectionists is that we’re really not after perfect. Our aspirations for perfect get hammered out of us very early. Forget perfect, there’s no chance of that. We settled for right, which is so much further from perfect that you, non-perfectionist will ever know.

That’s why we don’t count ourselves as perfectionists.

We’re more like rightists or something…

We’re perfectionists about our own perfectionism.

Get it?

Yes. That’s how I live everyday. I think of these things