If I am creating something, I tend to be a perfectionist. I can give psychological explanations about my upbringing, but I have lived a lot more years as an adult than I have as a child. So, as an adult, I accept ownership for this behavior. It is a character defect and I include it in my step four inventory.
On the other hand, I am a pragmatist when others are concerned. I can be magnanimous in overlooking the flaws in everyone else’s work.
Perhaps I should learn to treat myself as generously as I think I treat others.