St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague, Czech Republic Life is full of paradoxes. For example, perfectionism has been a blight on my career trajectory. Obsessively agonizing over grades and being afraid of failure doesn’t exactly lend itself to action. However, in the same breath I can praise my perfectionism for giving me a career trajectory. Grades got me into my university program, which helped me land internships, that gave me experience and money, which gave me confidence, that lan