Perfectionism: Creativity’s Joyless Spoiler

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“If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything”

David Foster Wallace

This is a tough one. How do you argue against perfectionism when you dearly want everything to be perfect? Writing is an art, a craft, a useful method of communicating. The act of writing is as natural to most of us as talking, but even with all of our lifetime experience…