How to Avoid Making a Mistake

It's not really about a sense of pride, but it's driven by fear of messing up and revealing your inadequacy because you were used to having your mistakes pointed out. Even if you weren't aware of them, you didn't know you made a mistake. You thought you'd done a good job, maybe. But then your parent had some kind of critical thing to say about it. So you keep trying to make it better now and you make something good enough that you can avoid being criticized. Now on a related note, number five, it takes you a long time to complete a task.