Hmm. Let’s see. I’ve been perfectionist in the past about getting chores done. Well maybe? In order for me to do chores things would have to be just right. Uhh like cleaning my room. If my laundry basket was full I have nowhere to put my dirty clothes. So let’s not clean. Or if I can’t find the broom to sweep then I wouldn’t clean anything at all. This is something I’ve gotten much much better at. All I really did for this was to just start doing stuff and telling myself it didn’t matter. I’d say this was over a period of a year about ~3 years ago.
For perfectionism in my studies I haven’t done much because I never recognized it as such or thought to deal with it. One thing that comes to mind is that I’m very open to making mistakes and figuring things and not being perfect when I’m learning. It’s when, at some point, I felt like I “got it” that I become perfectionist. I think this happened with grammar trees. The beginning was “easier” because I didn’t expect to be good and that’s fine, but after doing it for so long subconsciously I assumed they had to be perfect. So I would take longer trying to get them right. Hmm. Maybe treat something as I’m always learning. That I’ll never “get it”?
Kinda related to the above I’ve noticed that tendency in games. I’ve also gotten much better at this by forcing myself to play through mistakes/bad runs. I’ve only been doing this for a few months now and its still kind of a habit. I think I tell myself that this mistake could have been avoided/doesn’t actually reflect my skill so I restart. This reply had me start thinking about my mentality on games and restarting: