u/cthulhufhtagn:

Read the hagakure.

You are most likely a perfectionist because you feel that you have some value, and that your value increases as you strive for and sometimes attain perfection.

Where you’ve been mislaid is here: you have assumed that you do have value, are important, significant.

Destroy the Self, the Ego, the Pride in yourself. Kill it. Make yourself an empty vessel, a tool for the will of your Master (whoever that may be - someone greater than you, deserving of the title).

That is real perfection.

A perfectionist cringes at the imperfection of irrelevant mistakes — mislaid.

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