Mr. Imperfect

You don't have to be perfect:

Being told that you’re wonderful, even perfect, plays into your need to enact self-enhancement. That is why your well-meaning loved one does it. You might do it to yourself; entire psychological techniques have been built upon our self-enhancement bias, such as self-talk to inflate one’s esteem through positive affirmations. Al Franken performed a famous parody of this technique with his Saturday Night Live character Stuart Smalley, whose catchphrase was “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!” Although self-enhancement feels good in the short term, it is not a long-term solution to life’s problems. Sooner or later, you’re bound to be confronted with a painful adjustment to the truth. For instance, researchers writing in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology showed that when college students held an inflated view of their own academic ability, it enhanced their mood and positive affect—that is, they enjoyed happier feelings. But the illusion of superiority did not translate into better academic performance. In fact, the students tended to fail at their academic expectations, and that in part led to lower self-esteem over the long term.

Sometimes you just have to learn to deal with your imperfections...