Pointing out the intellectual laziness of perfectionism doesn't mean that we will become intellectually active. Perfectionism has a strong advantage-- you have a standard and a high one at that. We can be lazy and just muddle along. We can be overwhelmed and incapable of engaging on every issue. Problems fall out of sight and out of mind. In these situations, you don't have a standard, you have no standard and no standard can be worse than perfectionism. Perfectionism is easier to correct than laziness. When you are a perfectionist you are doing something that can be observed, measured, tweaked, reviewed, changed, matured. But laziness?
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