- > Overidentification with the work. So when it goes well, you’re on the top of the world, but when it goes badly (which a perfectionist think is always happening) you’re down in the dumps. This is an exhausting cycle at best; at worst it can terrorize you away from your work. Also, seeing your work as a justification, vindication, legitimization, or other personal validation.
Page 2 - > Grandiosity. Perfectionists think that things that are hard, or even impossible, for other people should be easy for them. This leads to all kind of antiproductive behaviors, including a lack of interest in planning, lack of willingness to consult mentors, and attempts to work without adequate resources.
These traits all certainly add up to perfectionism, but they likely present at different levels in everybody, leading to a variety of different types of perfectionism among different spectra.