"Is it a disadvantage to pay attention to details?

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Details are what make up life. Life is not just sixty or eighty years when one gets
by only paying attention to the main idea of everything. If that were true, then
every person in the world would be seen as just a person; the little details would
not matter - the intelligence, the look, the hair color - all the details that make up
who a person is. So, the question, "Is it a disadvantage to pay attention to
details?" is fallacious. In other words, paying attention to details is an important
part in life, whether making an easy decision, or the most trivial. The evidence
supporting this fact through history and life is very pervasive.
The first case where paying attention to details proves to be an advantage is in
the Chinese battle of Penghu, in the middle of the 19th century. At the time, the
ruler of the Qing dynsasty was the omnipotent King, Kangxi. At the time, the
King got into a horrible dispute with the leader of Taiwan, in which no discussion
or treaty could solve. So, the King declared war, sending admiral Shi Lang with
100,000 men and 600 warships to attack Taiwan. AT first, the attack was
deflected, so the admiral split up the trops. One of the generals of the split up
troops, Jiang Tzu, played a large role in the decisive victory that later occurred,
all by paying attention to details. As he was in Taiwan, he noticed weird
occurrences - one man in his troops did not quite add up, and after looking at the
details, he found him to be a traitor, and so, capture d him, found out where the
enemy was, attacked, and won the battle of Penghu.
The next occurrence where details play a large role is in "The Jungle" by Upton
Sinclair. In it, Jurghis, his wife, Ona, and her family travel from Lithuania to
America to experience the American Dream, but because they did not pay
attention to the details, they soon found out it was the "American Nightmare". At
the beginning, Jurghis, with the pittance of money he had left, buys a house with
a mortgage of $12 a month. But because he did not pay attention to the little
details in the deed, he soon found out he owed interest, insurance, and other
cots, the money for which he did not have. The family was soon evicted, one
family member left, Ona and her baby died, and the others dispersed throughout
Chicago, leaving Jurghis to become a criminal. As can be seen, little details play
large roles.
Finally, the little details played a large role in the life of Donald Cullen, a wealthy
and munificent stock broker of the 1920s. His life was good - he made tons of
money, and even gave a lot to charity - but then, as the '30s approached, he
noticed the little details, like how many people were buying on a low margin and
could easily become in debt, and also how Joe Kennedy ,one accused of insider
trading, pulled his money. So when Black Tuesday came, Donald did not have
money in the market. The little details helped him to keep his wealth.
To reiterate, little details do, much of the time, add up to huge things. If little
details are seen, good decisions can be made, to do big things. But if they are
missed, prodigious consequences can occur.