How Barack Obama's Perfectionist Tendencies Delayed His Memoir
And that was entirely his own doing. He gets his ideas down on a legal pad first, writing each and every word by hand. Usually, on a first draft, you’re not making sense." And writing isn’t the only task that the former president approaches with his now-famous perfectionism. He does not curse. He does not follow a pretty woman with his eyes or sneak a smoke. He does not dress sloppily....