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Personally, I believe that this is a very important forum post. I think that this thought process really deserves a lot of attention because of how true it is and because of how significant the repercussions are for someone. I have an example of this theory that was pretty consistently explained to me and my teammates in college. So, I was a member of the men's soccer team at Virginia Military Institute and one thing that our coach would always tell us at every practice is to "take care of the little things and the bigger things will take care of themselves". I think that this coincides with this lesson because it is explaining that is you or a team makes sure that they are adamite about doing the little things right, then it will lead to the bigger things not becoming large failures. On the other side, if the little things are not dealt with then the bigger things will become failures and become an issue. My real-life example is also at a time when I was back in college. When you are a senior at VMI, you are given a freshman or "rat" to take care of for the year. Well, one of the rats in my room who was my roommates rat decided that he was not getting the grades he wanted to in his English class and wanted to do something about it. Instead of doing the little things like studying, he decided he was going to cheat and plagiarize. Of course he was quickly caught and had to face consequences. Because of the nature of VMI, it was determined that he was going to get kicked out of school. I would say that is a pretty big issue. He had to start all over again in his educational career and it set him back in time and money. This is just a prime example in my opinion on how not taking care of the little stuff and lead to larger and more impactful problems later

Answer 1

Thanks for sharing this insightful and intellectually crafted article.

My Take

I clearly support this motion put by the author that in order to focus on big issues, we should clearly set the little things in order. I personally believe that bigger problems/issues are the sum total of all little things that were ignored for they felt very negligible or not so important for consideration. Bigger problems always lead a person to find what led to it in the first instance and I have this personal experience that when the analysis of it is done impartially and rationally, it only makes us question our choices of ignoring little things. Because little things are the bedrock of any bigger things and if little things are given their due weightage, bigger things will by default set its house in order and if we fail to take small technicalities into account, bigger problems are bound to aggravate.  

I am of the opinion that no issue is small enough to be ignored or not to be taken into consideration and I strongly believe that fatal mistakes can be avoided if we do not discriminate between little and bigger issues and give them their due weightage with equal importance and if we see that any successful lawyer or investigating officer delves into the specifics of each case and that gives them the idea of the big picture.

Thanks for asking my take on this topic. If you think my effort is worthwhile, please give an upvote as it really helps me improve further and contribute more towards this knowledge society (of which you are an integral part).