Like all of us, I have both strengths and flaws. I am very self-critical, so I tend to inflate my flaws and downplay my strengths. I am also a perfectionist, a trait that I consider to be both a strength and a flaw. For example, I recently knit up a chemo cap for a dear …
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Generally speaking, I am a patient person. However, I am awful when it comes to waiting for public transportation. I was raised in New York City and have taken public transportation my whole life, so you would think I would have learned how to wait gracefully. No such luck. I obsessively check to see if …
Until relatively recently (the past few years), I was too uncertain of my skills to do much of anything for myself. I felt trapped by my own ineptitude. I wouldn’t move a piece of furniture, lest it be a wrong move. I tolerated bad designs, kept all the default setting on my computers and …
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