Writing is nice.
You can take your time, you can find the right words and articulate precisely.
Talking on the other hand doesn’t offer the same luxury of time.
Your conversation partner isn’t going to wait for you to look up synonyms of truculent so you can be extremely accurate in your description.
There’s more improvising, shooting from the hip and inevitably more mistakes.
Which I think triggers the perfectionist in the writer.
Given the option they would probably prefer a memo to a meeting, a text to a phone call and a written description instead of a vocal outline.
The perfectionist who replays every conversation in their head, rewriting their own speech is on route to never talking again.
Better to be imperfect and forgive yourself than a self-hating mute.
Thomas Duggan 