there is no such a thing as "real perfectionism" perfectionism, like many other behavioral styles, is a spectrum Most of the "perfectionists" are people that

there is no such a thing as "real perfectionism" perfectionism, like many other behavioral styles, is a spectrum Most of the "perfectionists" are people that simply care a lot more than the average about details, not sociopaths. Katsuhiro Otomo is a perfectionist, but he also enjoys his life and creating his art. p.s. perfectionists most of the time acknowledge that thinks will work anyway, they simply also believe (and rightly so) that things could be better than they currently are. Most of the times they also know that perfection (or an incarnation of it) takes a lot of time. We only talk about the extreme cases because of survival bias: they are the ones who will make extreme sacrifices, while the others will give up on perfection sooner or later, because they are not actually obsessed with it.