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Lilli Ambort: A Personal Analysis
“Suck it up soldier.” my mother will always tell me, from tough times to a scrape on the knee this has always been what I have been told. Though it may have led to my ability to persevere or my emotional unavailability, I will always try to keep this close in mind. I, Lilli Ambort, am a 14 year old girl born on September 7th, 2000. I have an older sister of 3 minutes, and a younger sister of 13 years. I have two dogs: Ava and Buster, and two cats: Clara and Claws. For the first few years of my short life I moved about the Quad Cities and surrounding areas. From Dixon, Iowa to Davenport, Iowa, to Rock Island, Illinois. Covering the span from kindergarten to fifth grade. Then my journey in the Bettendorf Community school district began in 6th …show more content…
Being a perfectionist is hard when working on group projects. I have a very “My way or the highway” rhetoric, whether it is the most efficient way does not matter. I have left people out of the project entirely or hurt people’s feelings because of my corrections. This was exemplified in 8th grade in particular, I was in a group of three people doing our own design of an obstacle course to demonstrate velocity and centrifugal force. Already having a pretty good image of what the course should be and being the only person in the group with pre-existing knowledge of google sketchup, I then took the liberty of designing the entire course myself. By taking tedious measurements, and redoing different parts over and over again until they were perfect. My partners stood by, knowing that any suggestions would probably be thrown aside. Looking back upon this I regret leaving out my other partners and try to put myself into their shoes, realizing how much of a tyrant I must have appeared to be. This in the future could potentially cost me friends and relationships, along with providing some unpleasant situations. Long nights of driving myself mad because something is not perfect. I am now working on my perfectionist tendencies, and hope to see the benefits come my

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