Oh, even better. I was a straight A+ student, but was "only" twelfth in my class (of 365 students) instead of valedictorian like my mother was (of a class of 12, at a school for the blind).

Only perfect was good enough. *very wry* I'm a lot better about "good enough". One of Elise Matthesen's posts, where she quoted Mike Ford as saying something like all the false starts and unfinished projects are the compost a creative person needs to have... that made a huuuuuge impression, and freed up a lot.

But I've still got a long, long way to go.