A procrastinator rationalizes why the task should never begin.
A perfectionist rationalizes why the task can never be finished.
The end result is identical in either case.
Nothing ever gets completed on time or within budget.

I am one of those. It is not that I do not complete the task but that I
am never happy with the result.

On 1 Ago, 22:32, "curmudgeon" bresnan.net> wrote:

I am a perfectionist, because the PERFECTIONISM is my philosphy.
In it the PERFECTION is a matter already completely PERFECTED.
On this base, we are acting in a world having a negative time, that
returns at the Beginning, but, for the third Principle of the dynamic
law, we are perceiving inversey: a matter world going towards its end
in the positive time.
By the negativity -1 of a life ALL PERFECTED we perceive the
positivity +1 of a life ALL IMPERFECTED.

Romano

On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:32:18 -0600, curmudgeon wrote:

A procrastinator rationalizes why the task should never begin now ...but
always later. What actually may happen (i.e. the task never beginning)
is not rationalized. In fact, it is important that the completion of the
task is rationalized otherwise the procrastinator would have to admit to
being a slacker.

The perfectionist never sees perfection therefore never sees an end to
the task. like you say.

the question is does it take as much time and money to get someone to
start or to stop? This comes down to the individual but whatever the
individual case, the perfectionist has produced while the procrastinator
has not.

On the other hand, the perfectionist has assumed a type of moral
ownership over the project and is operating with inertia so the effort to
slow then stop this might be a consideration.