
Feb 02, 2016, 06:26 PM
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Member Since: Jan 2016
Location: San Jose
Posts: 12
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Welcome to being a perfectionist.
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Originally Posted by coyotee
I have a big problem with this. I'm constantly double checking for errors in grammar, spelling, legibility. Choosing words can be very hard. I'm always afraid I might say something offensive without any intention of doing so. I'm always afraid of over-explaining and also under-explaining.
I'm afraid that if I don't disseminate information properly, someone else will mess their work next. Similar to that, I'm always afraid that maybe someone else haphazardly gave me bad information to pass a long, like having one digit of a number wrong or having the wrong time for an appointment. Remember the game "telephone"? where you whisper something to someone, they whisper it to the next person, so on, then at the end, the message is totally different. I don't want to be the one who did something to cause that error.
I owe a little bit of money to the state for taxes so I just sent a check. I went through 7 envelopes. I rewrote it five times because it didn't meet my legibility standards and also because a couple of times I had to rip open the envelope and look over the check again to make sure I did it right.
Honestly, even here, I edit almost every single post, before I submit it and after. Sometimes within a few minutes after initially posting and editing, it won't list the post as edited - I'm super grateful for that feature.
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