In the book The Paper Chase, there's a scene where the young law student gets an extra assignment from his demanding law professor -- a chance to really show what he can do. The student gets behind, the project takes longer than he thought, other work interferes, but the whole time he keeps telling himself that he'll just do such a big, bang-up, thorough and more-than-thorough job that it will still impress his professor, even though it's late. When he finally confesses what's happened, the professor brushes it off and says that when it was clear the student couldn't handle it, he gave the job to someone else. Which, in law school, is, you know, really, really, really not good.
I've never forgotten that scene and it's sometimes shown up unpleasantly in my dreams.
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