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The Perfectionist
I keep everything in its column. That is what holds me together.
The columns are what hold you together.
You keep everything in its place because the order itself steadies you, and you trust a tried, familiar method over a promising new one every time. Setbacks land hard and take a while to actually pass.
Exacting · Vigilant · Methodical
The five together
Careful, private and easily unsettled, you keep everything in its column because the columns hold you together, and you trust the tried method over the promising one.
The Perfectionist's result is high on Conscientiousness, low on Extraversion, Emotional Stability and Openness and in the middle on Agreeableness. Each band is wide on purpose: a score near a boundary can fall either side on a retake, and the portrait describes the pattern, not a precise point.
About 3 in 1,000 people
0.26% of a reference sample of 596,850 adults share this combination. The Perfectionist is an uncommon combination.
Bands are relative to a general adult reference sample. Honesty-Humility is measured in your Snapshot and appears in your report; it is not part of the portrait.
What The Perfectionist might recognize
- You feel genuinely unsettled when your usual system gets disrupted, even for a good reason.
- You would rather redo something the proven way than risk a shortcut that has not been tested yet.
A question worth keeping
What would happen to your worry if the system, for once, was allowed to hold without your checking it?
Six lenses
The Perfectionist in relationships, at work, and under stress.
In relationships
What you bring, what you need, where it strains.
These six lenses on The Perfectionist come with the membership.
Written for this exact combination, alongside 90 trait pages, a strengths constellation and a growth plan.
Read them in the membershipOne band away
Move a single dimension and the portrait changes. These are the ten neighbours of The Perfectionist.
- Extraversion mediumThe Workhorse
- Extraversion highThe Head Coach
- Agreeableness lowThe Purist
- Agreeableness highThe Devotee
- Conscientiousness lowThe Homebody
- Conscientiousness mediumThe Steady Hand
- Emotional Stability mediumThe Timekeeper
- Emotional Stability highThe Helmsman
- Openness mediumThe Craftsman
- Openness highThe Illustrator
The traits behind The Perfectionist
A portrait is a pattern across five measured dimensions. Every trait is reported as a percentile against the reference sample; the three bands and the portrait name exist to make the result easier to talk about, and the percentile is always shown alongside. Each dimension has its own page explaining what it means, what the research says it predicts, and how it can change.
- Quiet band, below the 30th percentileWhat is Extraversion?
How much you enjoy being around people, talking, and doing lively things, and how much energy that gives you.
- Balanced band, 30th to 70th percentileWhat is Agreeableness?
How kind, trusting, and cooperative you tend to be with other people, and how much you put getting along ahead of getting your way.
- High band, above the 70th percentileWhat is Conscientiousness?
How organised, careful, and reliable you are about getting things done and keeping your promises.
- Quiet band, below the 30th percentileWhat is Emotional Stability?
How calm and even you usually feel, and how quickly you bounce back when something upsets you.
- Quiet band, below the 30th percentileWhat is Openness?
How much you enjoy new ideas, art, imagination, and experiences that are different from what you already know.
The Snapshot also measures Honesty-Humility, which appears in your report but is not part of the portrait code. How much you tell the truth, play fair, want only your fair share, and avoid showing off, even when you could get away with more.
Questions about The Perfectionist
- What is the Perfectionist personality?
- The Perfectionist is one of the 243 Wellington portraits: a pattern of bands across the five Big Five dimensions rather than a fixed type. I keep everything in its column. That is what holds me together. Careful, private and easily unsettled, you keep everything in its column because the columns hold you together, and you trust the tried method over the promising one.
- How common is The Perfectionist?
- 0.26% of a reference sample of 596,850 adults share this combination. The Perfectionist is an uncommon combination among the 243 portraits in the reference sample, and the share will move as the norming sample grows.
- How do I find out if I am The Perfectionist?
- Take the free Wellington Snapshot: 60 questions, about 7 minutes. You answer all the questions first, then you sign in with an email so your answers are saved and your results can be shown. There is no card. Your free results name your portrait and show your five dimensions.
- Is The Perfectionist a personality type?
- Not in the sense of a box you are sorted into. Wellington measures continuous traits and reports each as a percentile against a reference sample. The Perfectionist names the combination of bands your scores fall in, and a score near a band boundary can land on either side on a retake. Wellington describes ordinary variation in personality; it is not a diagnosis and is not designed for hiring. Read more about types and traits
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