I had a professor once that said he found his most professionally successful students weren’t the ones who got A’s but the B students and he calked it up to the

I had a professor once that said he found his most professionally successful students weren’t the ones who got A’s but the B students and he calked it up to the notion that the B students were better able to know where the maximum return on their invested effort was where as the A student invested whatever it took to get the A even if the incremental effort required wasn’t proportional to the incremental benefit of the next hire grade. The notion that perfectionism can be harmful reminds me of that.