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From: Johan Hiemstra [mailto:webmaster -at- techexams -dot- net]
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 10:56 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: arrogance
Do you ever write something down and immediately think it is good, great
even? So good that it doesn't even matter if anyone else will ever read
it? Just having it written, the choice of words, as if it were meant to
be written by you? As if nobody could have done it better even though
you do realize there is always a better writer somewhere?
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Sometimes those moments of arrogance are the only job satisfaction you
get. You just have to know how to balance them with humility.
I briefly had a friend I thought was rather intelligent until he bragged
about his belief that he had never, ever, met a person who was smarter
than he was. And while there were people on the planet that were
smarter, he was sure none of them were women because there was no way
any woman could be smarter than he was. Needless to say, the friendship
didn't last long because it was hard to fit in the same room as that
ego.
As long as you can take the humble moments where you are in awe of
someone else's work or know that there are people out in the world who
are better at your job than you are, there isn't much wrong with having
a brief moment where you can fully believe that you are indeed the
greatest thing that ever happened to the document you are working on.
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