We talked about how he used to not be great at this game or that and with practice, he got better... the things that I'm not great at, but get better at with practice. And just told him that just because he isn't the best in one thing, doesn't mean he won't be in another, etc... that and I sat down with him while he was doing it, of course.

Sadly, there's definitely a perfectionism thing going on. He wrote an "e" and erased it twice to rewrite it. And NONE of the first two were sloppy/bad.