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A phrase I often get to hear is: “You managed to handle task b. But you failed on task a, which was much easier than b. Most people do it the other way round…”

Often I put very much effort into completing my tasks in the shortest possible time and of course, everything needs to be perfect then. And then it is always about those small issues that I fail to get. A good example is me writing a letter:

  • I look through for language errors and correct them
  • I reflect whether we should additionally mention this and that…

This is all done…and then I simply forget to put this tiny CC: Mr. Doe on the bottom. When discovering my error I feel like a complete idiot, because, I know I could do better, and instead, I fail.

This was written by Daniela on October 11th, 2007 and filed under: Daily notes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Comments so far to “Why do I…”

  1. gravatar Nina left a comment on October 12th, 2007 at 8:30 pm :

    Sounds like we have a perfectionist here. But yeah, that kind of thing really pisses me off, I perfect something big, but there would always be something small I messed up on.. ALWAYS.

  2. gravatar Sar left a comment on October 12th, 2007 at 11:47 pm :

    Ick, that’s happened to me a few times before. It made me feel very disappointed in myself. Most of the time it’s just on my site’s coding. I’ll miss putting one bracket or colon/semicolon somewhere in one of the documents and it’ll screw up the entire page–even though everything else would be perfect. The simple things in life, hahaha.

  3. gravatar tina left a comment on October 13th, 2007 at 2:14 pm :

    That sounds like me, I always do stuff like that. It can get really annoying.
    But at least it’s better than always doing the really big things wrong, I think )