Confessions of a Recovering Perfectionist
How I stopped polishing, and started publishing.
5 min readApr 19, 2021
My name is Sheryl, and I’m a perfectionist.
I was a magazine editor, for large parts of my working life. It’s a job where content is key, ideas your currency. You only get one chance a month to impress your readers, so you want to make the best issue possible.