The violence of perfectionism

I know you're just trying to be good, but you're not helping your writing career (or anything else).

Perfectionism is a huge problem I deal with on the job. The emotional plague of the high achiever, the perceptive soul, and the people-pleaser, it is mayhaps* a little common** in book publishing (*=definitely; **=literally like 85% of our body weight by volume).

When I’m being nice, I admonish myself and my colleagues over our perfectionism thusly: we …