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RE: How To Stop Being So Damn Cynical

in #life8 years ago

Thanks for caring my friend. I take your point and it's one way of looking at it, although I wish you'd defined what you mean by precisionist rather than perfectionist.
No, I always like to be moving forward, and at the moment, that is not the case, so I am becoming cynical. In my defense, and on reflection, my cynicism could be directly caused by my recent circumstances, but I think it's probably due to growing older, and not achieving the goals I've set myself. I'm not giving up, by any means, but things are taking too long, and with the present situation, I can't see things speeding up.

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Well, basically a perfectionist is someone that nit pics everything, never good enough.
that is the modern term anyway, what I meant by having a negative connotation.
A Precisionist is: when a machine makes parts and the allowed tolerances are + or - .005 of an inch. That means a part say, 1 inch in diameter can be from .955 to 1.005. So a Precisionist works on the machine and makes it make parts better (More Precise) than what it was doing. My work makes parts that are only + or - .002 in. so new part are better ! parts are now .999 - 1.001 inch, better parts, cause homi don't PLAY !