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Beautiful Mistakes

Beautiful Mistakes

Published Feb 9, 2023 Updated Feb 9, 2023 Culture
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Beautiful Mistakes

Translator: Austin Wagner

Workshop Diary 7

 

There’s always that typical interview question: what are your best and worst qualities?

And there’s always the typical answer: I’m a maximalist.

Please don’t ever give that answer to that question. Even if it’s true. I’m not joking. Seriously, not even a little. I know too much about maximalism for it to be funny.

“You need to be getting A++’s,” my father always said about school. “A+ is the bad student’s minimum.” And when I did manage an A+, it was considered a given, no pat on the back for a good report card – which happened frequently, not because I was particularly diligent, but because I could cram an immense amount of material into my short-term memory and then forget it all later. If, on the other hand, I got a B (or worse) on an

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