Life is a complicated thing. Not everything in it has been sorted out since childhood. To set his own rhythm of life, a person needs to adapt to it. Someone breaks, but we will talk about them later and not in this article. Someone does not lay out the little things of life in place, accumulating them in a pile of rubbish at the back of the brain. We will not talk about them either, at least for now.
We will talk about pedants. About people who always know exactly what they will do for a long time to come. About people who strictly observe the regime. About those who always do everything right. And who knows exactly how it is necessary.
Pedantry. What is it and what is it fraught with for others?
If your house strictly adheres to the rule "Everything should be laid only in its place and point", if the toilet paper never runs out in the toilet, and sugar in the sugar bowl, if you have lunch in the afternoon And-no-dare-late, "then you live with the pedant. There are no unambiguous examples, it can be anything, the general rule is only one: always and in all respect for careful accuracy and order. It also applies to communication: speech pedantry is when a person unnecessarily speaks out in detail. For example, "apple tree" instead of "apple tree", etc.
Most often, this character trait is not the best and is perceived by others negatively. Indeed, despite all the positive aspects (and this is responsibility, and accuracy, and thoroughness, and punctuality), the pedant remains a kind of bore. Zealously observing a clear order, a person rests on it - neither development, nor movement.
Most often, pedantry itself is not annoying. What is this inherently? Just a combination of character traits that distinguish solid and precise people. Pettiness and ignorance are the hallmarks of the pedant. You will be enraged not by the fact that he puts his toothbrush with the villi to the north, but the fact that he will force you to observe this. But it doesn’t force it - it will bite you for not doing it. This is called the authority of pedantry. We will discuss this in more detail.
Take, for example, an ordinary office employee. Mid-level manager. Let him be a pedant. On his desk - not a single extra piece of paper, he immediately files each of them into the desired folder as a separate file. Never late for work, always dressed neatly and neatly in everything. Great worker, right? Now let's imagine that it was not an ordinary office clerk, but the head of that office. It is unlikely that the pedant endowed with power would remain silent about the mistakes of other workers.
Or here's another option for you: a woman gnawing at the household for the eternal mess in the house. There are a lot of examples. And at the heart of all of them will be petty, tight control over the stages of work that have been personally distributed. This limits not only the leader, but also the subordinate. By the way, the majority of mentally unhealthy people track such a thing as pedantry. Is this a coincidence or a trade?
So, how to relate to such people? Is it possible to say unequivocally that it is bad or good? Pedantry - what is it? An aggressive way to occupy others, is something akin to fascism? Or just protection from your own phobias, sometimes going beyond? It is unlikely that you can come to a definite answer, make the right choice. But each person as a multifaceted personality has the right to hesitate. Circumstances will decide.