Thoughts
John provides this image without commentary (beyond that he sees "huge differences" in his signature that other people don't see) but I love
it as an example of what perfectionism can do to you. When you're a perfectionist or detail-oriented, no one notices issues that you notice, ever. But some of those issues are important and some of them are unimportant. Not only are the differences in the signature something that doesn't matter to the person receiving it; the scale that they're being judged on is completely subjective—invented by John himself over the course of countless hours signing pages. If you care about details and other people don't then it's difficult to discern what details are meaningful and which ones are a result of your brain ruthlessly judging every detail.
