I had a piece due at 3pm and ended up rewriting it at 2:58. Not because it was bad, but because it just would not sit right. Do you thrive under last-minute pressure or does it break you?

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Given the choice, I don’t want to *have* to thrive under pressure. Sometimes it is unavoidable. Very last-minute changes, not enacted by me, led to that. In any industry, you have to try and be able to work under pressure.

True, I guess the trick is being able to handle it when it comes your way. For me it wasn’t even an outside change, just me second-guessing myself. Pressure can sharpen you, but it can also make you spiral

That’s just self-sabotage. If you’re rewriting at 2:58, you’re not thriving under pressure, you’re panicking. Sometimes “done” is better than “perfect.” Obsessing last-minute is a recipe for burnout

Fair point. It did feel more like panic than brilliance at the time. The obsession for perfect wording is my worst habit, but in the moment it feels impossible to let it go

I have always thrived on last minute pressure and I hate that I do. I am the same way, I will rewrite something last minute but it ends up being perfection.

I relate to that more than I’d like to admit. Sometimes the last-minute rush pulls something out of me I wouldn’t have written otherwise, even though I hate the way it gets there.

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