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@sjessen that is an adjustment to make! Most of us have been trained by our families, school teachers and bosses to be more or less perfectionists. Many instructors will want you to hold in place until you have “mastered” a certain skill. I had to unlearn my perfectionism too when I came to TAC.
I still remember like it was yesterday, I was in a wood-working class at 12 years of age. We were carving animals; only not with knives but using a rasp (kind of a file but with rough bumps that do the cutting). I had mine in the shape I wanted and I asked the instructor for sandpaper. But he said that I wasn’t ready for sandpaper yet. I needed to have my hippopotamus much more evenly smoothed out first. I couldn’t have any grooves on it that didn’t belong and it had to be uniformly smoothed out all over before I could move on to finishing. I could not go to step 3 until step 2 was perfectly done. In the coming weeks I had to go to him several more times and he would examine my work and then point out little scratches to work on. I felt like I was being held back from finishing my project. It turns out, I was.