Perfectionism is defined as the refusal to accept any standard short of perfection. Does one know how long it takes to ‘perfect’ their craft? There is not a designed time frame in perfectionism, in understanding that you must understand there is a designed time in mistakes and errors. In making the mistakes and errors that’s where you discover what you may have concluded was the perfect way of operation may not be and there is another possible way. One that may be faster producing a production while saving time or a better look if it’s you are working on a design of some sort. It may be where you discover a more efficient technique, only able to discover the mistakes made to perfection.
If you listen to the greats or the top one percent, they speak about the joy in the journey. How they learned their most valuable lessons while they were perfecting their craft. You will also hear them say how they still make mistakes and they are still learning. Focusing on perfectionism to be very transparent is a subtle way of sabotaging, time does not stay still. As time moves so does the requirement of process, when you stop making mistakes you stop learning. Leaving you essentially stuck in that fragment of time, limited to the information required to advance to the current or future.
Embrace being open to what you deem as embarrassment, failure, setback, or mistakes. Find the excitement and fun in the process of developing what you would consider perfection.