I consider myself a recovering perfectionist. It used to be that, all my code had to be perfectly understandable, all my variable names the perfect metaphor /

I consider myself a recovering perfectionist. It used to be that, all my code had to be perfectly understandable, all my variable names the perfect metaphor / concept, my architectures the most scalable etc. I found that the anxiety of having to make hundreds of correct decisions everyday left me exhausted. Ultimately it was not sustainable. I would agonised over tiny details for extended period of time. I was eventually exposed to and much later internalised the idea that there are three types of decisions: 1. those you get right 2. Those you get wrong 3. Those you don't make Anything is better than 3 in a non-life or death situation. If you're trying to learn 1 is not so important and doing 2 is the only way to truly learn.