ok. say you’ve got a job. say you’ve got assignements for your job. interesting ones. less interesting ones.
say some pay more than others.
now, if you got, say, a hundred assignements a year, it’s kinda statistical that you have to screw up at least one of them.
what i mean by screwing up is really screwing up, i mean, bad lucks happens right ? so screwing up like really fucking up, like doing completely wrong, like making a huge mistake, like having nothing at all to show or to sell.
on about a hundred assignements, like i said, it has to happen. at least once. nobody’s perfect, so it really has to happen at least once, even if you’re good at your job.

now, say that your assignements kinda grow bigger and bigger, they’re not necessarily more interesting, but say that they involve more money, more people, more responsabilities each time.

so, if you screw up when your assignement is a small task, it’s kinda better than if it’s a big one, right ?
but if you’re up to your ninety-ninth assignement, and you still haven’t screwed up big time even once, then you really gotta worry about your hundred-th-whatever, right ?

my point being, my assignements are beginning to be a little bit big – for me that is -, and i still haven’t really badly fucked up a job i was given.
shall i deliberately screw up the next one, just to be sure that i’ll have less chances, statistically speaking, to screw up a bigger one ?
or shall i just keep on doing my best until i fuck up a one bizillion bucks contract ?

:D