I have a great obsession to over-optimize ore processing output. Or put differently I really hate “wasting” certain ores when I know that in the future I will be able to process them using more advanced machinery to get extra output. For this reason I tend to rush for basic ore washing and sulfuric acid vitriol processing as fast as I can. For this reason when I am in the early game I never process for example tetrahedrite because I know that I will get a bunch more copper from it when I use sulfuric acid. This problem got even worse for me when I learned that I can use fortune to get more ore output. With that knowledge I just cant break those normal ore blocks with normal pickaxe but I only break the small ores and rush to get either boomsticks (it still hurts my brain that I will be wasting something by not using dynamite that has fortune 5) or fortune pickaxe. I am trying to overcome this urge as it makes playing very hard when it makes me focus more on ways how to maximize the ore output or rather minimize “waste” instead of playing. Whenever I am making screws using the early game method with a file I hesitate, because even a single nugget wasted bothers me. Sure it will be just a tiny fraction from the whole ore vein which I will be mining to get through early game and the rest will be processed using better methods that have better gains but probably because of the type of autism I have I can not stop caring 
But to be fair it used to be worse, on my first playthrough I just started to know the processing methods and did not get that far - I stopped, when I got back to GT I knew the ore processing little bit more and that made me care little bit too much, I started optimizing, on the 3rd I realized that I dont enjoy that kind of grind when I count every single nugget to get the minimum possible amount of ores processed using the early game methods to reach better processing and efficiency, well now… I almost learned how to not care that much and just enjoy playing, but it still bothers me
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