Overachiever Research Paper

Unconsciously Overachieving to Someday Reach Perfection. First of all, I am not a perfectionist although I feel like that is a word some people try associating with me. Along with “perfectionist,” “overachiever” is another name I hear people call me. I will admit that I am an overachiever but not in the sense most people think of. When someone hears the word “overachiever,” they will think of someone only working to be the teacher’s favorite because of all the additional work they put in to their assignments. That is not who I am because I do not overachieve for anyone but myself. Overachieving is something that has been engrained into my work ethic because of the pressure I have had to be successful throughout my life. I have been blessed to live the …show more content…
The pressure to be successful, to reach that “perfect life” one day, is now something that sits in the back of my head all of the time. When I write notes now, I accidentally write tons of extra information and my essays are usually quite lengthy. Even for math assignments and take home tests I spend probably way more time than necessary to check for correctness. My attention to detail even hurts me at times when it means losing sleep over homework assignments in order to make them as correct as I can. All in all, these are all actions a person would attribute to an overachiever or perfectionist but I firmly believe that these things I do are not on purpose. Without thinking much about why I’m doing it, I strive to do my very best and give it one hundred percent effort every time. I know that the closer to perfect I can get now in my school work, the closer to perfect I can get to my dream life one day. While I strive for this perfection, I know all too well that nothing in life is or ever will be perfect. This is why I do not believe I am a perfectionist, rather someone working for their American