Writing My Rational Argument

 

    The other day when we were in our second class in the library I was talking with Dr. Kyburz about my paper. At the time I hadn't really started my paper and was talking about how I should frame my paper and decide exactly what to write about. Then it hit me part way through the conversation, I'm so much of a perfectionist that I procrastinate starting stuff because I want to do it right the first time. 

    While my perfectionism tends to come out the most visibly at practice or in whatever athletic activity I'm doing at the time I always strive to be as flawless as I possibly can be. Even for just hobbies like figure skating I get quickly obsessed with wanting to master my technique and be able to get as many skills as possible as close to perfect as possible. While in sports I've found this to be very useful as long I can avoid overthinking and stressing over something in class it presents more of a problem. 

    In class I tend to not say answers when I teacher asks for them even if I'm 99% sure I know the answer cause that 1% is too scared to fail to just go for it. While I've gotten better than I used to be, I hesitate or procrastinate on almost everything making it out to be so much bigger or so much worse in my head than what it actually is in reality. 



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