Being finicky is crying wolf.

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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    Ben Mordecai says:

    Correct. (Driscoll haters maybe?…)

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    Cameron Fast says:

    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.

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    Josh says:

    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).

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    Jeannette says:

    Profoundly true.

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