It's interesting because I suffer from perfectionism as well, severely so. Probably for worse, I've also been able to achieve it in a lot of aspects of life. Th

It's interesting because I suffer from perfectionism as well, severely so. Probably for worse, I've also been able to achieve it in a lot of aspects of life. This reinforces my desire for perfection. The interesting part is that programming is the one place where perfection escapes me, as in I haven't desired for it. I realize there are bugs and caveats to written code. My flip side here is that I strive for perfection of the user's experience. I do get disheartened when a user experiences something negative in the code based I work on. The key for me has been focusing on the perfection to a user and not perfection of code. There may be a dark edge that they never see, and it's fine. When there is a careless bug, I still struggle balancing empathy and drive to fix it. That's fine, however, as I'm aware and work to not do it. I could see where someone who strives for perfection would easily get disheartened and feel misalignment in values.