Entrepreneur

both. equally.

Definitely present of the gods! It so rewarding about creating something to the best of my ability as an entrepreneur.

Worked in corporate for 25 years and everything was finish as quick as you can, this needs to be done yesterday, rush, rush, rush.

My greatest pleasure as an entrepreneur is doing things at MY OWN PACE and ending up with a result I love.

What is your perspective OP? We’re all different.

It depends on the ROI and circumstances.

If perfectionism makes you spend a significant amount of time with no return, it is a curse. Example: polishing a slide deck for a routine presentation that will have no impact whatsoever on the outcome.

If perfectionism makes the difference between 0 value and tremendous value because your standard is so incredibly rare, it is a gift. Example: an artist crafting a work of art (e.g. Michelangelo's David). If Michelangelo's had not been an absolute perfectionist, his lefscy would have been long forgotten by now.

I'll argue if you're delaying a project on the basis of 'perfectionism' whilst you have little to no interest in market demand and couldn't guess what a prospective customer is like -- it's a curse. But of course, in that case it isn't perfectionism -- is it.

Many will say some garbage like "the perfect is the enemy of the good." What they are defending is crap. Doing as little as possible and anything less you can possibly imagine; to see if you can fool some of the market, some of the time. They fool themselves instead.

Perfection is not a human trait. Duh. So, seeking it must be some kind of lame excuse, a subterfuge -- lying to yourself. Calling oneself a perfectionist elevates your effort above the scheming blundering obliviousness of the newbie cringing in fear of the market reaction. You're not procrastinating out of loathsome ineptitude and crippling fear -- no.

Somehow, without knowing much of anything, you have deemed yourself capable of flawlessly launching something a huge percentage fail at. Skipping half the steps, you miraculously nailed it!

Congratulations. Thank you for equating yourself to godlike levels of infallibility and omniscience -- humble of you. Go fucking launch and get what you deserve now please.

Same, same, Perfectionism strives to make you do more, but if you strive it always, it will be a curse, that's why a lot of entrepreneurs fail, to wanting to up the standard of already established just losing what they wanted to do in the first-place, so its a double edged sword, use it well so it wont stab you.

Neither.

i think initially the biggest weakness, but gradually becomes more useful for problem-solving and quality of work

Curse and a blessing, though more a curse. People with half your knowledge and talent are 2 steps ahead because you're still contemplating which color looks better on your homepage.

As far as I know, perfectionism develops as a kid, when your caregivers give you the feeling that whatever you do, it's not good enough or that you always have to do more than others.

I'm lost on the God reference. If perfection is getting in the way of doing something good, ur doing it wrong

I'm not sure why you have the god curse in here. Some people want to be thorough. Some people have OCD. Some people delay actually doing what they need to do, because of fear, so they come with a million other things to do. Some people are highly competitive and have to out-do others. Some people do in fact have un-diagnosed issues.

I wouldn't put perfectionism under a god curse umbrella. Different people have different reasons for their perfectionism.