Perfectionism

So you are a perfectionist. What you do is done with great integrity and skill, even if you have to develop the skills en route. Perfectionists are always harder on themselves than others. We impose our self-expectations on others as well and end up holding ourselves and everyone around us to some inflated standard of perfection.

But this also creates a very powerful inner judge which intensifies anything that feels like judgment on the outside. The power of others to judge us is in direct proportion to the power of this inner judge. When we understand this, we can begin the change within ourselves and see ourselves relax our standards with the outside world.