Nov 5, 2009
Being finicky is crying wolf.
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If you’re persnickety, people learn to ignore you.
Which means they won’t even heed the reasonable things you occasionally come up with.
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Nov 5, 2009
If you’re persnickety, people learn to ignore you.
Which means they won’t even heed the reasonable things you occasionally come up with.
* * * * *
Correct. (Driscoll haters maybe?…)
It hurts my heart that so many men I have respected so much hate Driscoll so much, especially the world-renown Bible preacher types.
That applies to me. But sometimes, I find it a real joy to be persnickety! I may have to keep this in mind in the future. Thank you, Abraham.
Great point. Now you need a “22 examples of persnicketiness” post so we can apply it better to our lives. ;)
As a designer, there’s few things that discourage me more than when I show a design to someone for initial feedback and the first thing they say is something like, “You’re missing a period here… Not sure I like the shade of blue… Your dashes should really be emdashes…” Not helpful and they’ve killed my enthusiasm.
What’s worse is I’ve been that guy before. And I’m sure I still am at times.
On the other hand, there’s a time & a place for persnicketiness in jobs (copywriters, fact checkers, and philosophers come to mind… wait, is philosophy really a job? oops, being persnickety).
I think that’s “presnickitude.” ;-)
so true….
Yup.
Profoundly true.