George was originally born on February 11,1732. George grew up near Fredericksburg, Virginia. As a boy George never cut down a cherry tree that myth was created by: "Parson" Weems. George Washington was not what everyone made him out to be. A flawless man of integrity and compassion towards others, that's what everyone thought and still most of us think today but it is just another myth about George. George Washington also was not educated as well as you might think. He was very self- conscious about the lack of education that he gotten during his youth. Which also got him into a lot of trouble during his commanding years. Everyone always thinks that George Washington was this great monument statue of power, strength, and confidence. In actuality George Washington feared that somehow someone would notice or discover his lack of education and ruin him. He was always trying to move up in the social world, that was one of his biggest goals, to be a well respected gentleman. He always wore good tailored army outfits to show others that he was the right to be commander. He did not have a very self esteem until he married to one of the wealthiest widows in Virginia. George Washington had another flaw, blaming others for his mistakes. He really was not an oringal thinker, even though he loved being in control, that is why he always had aids from his advisers and when something did go not was planned he would blame one of them for the mistake. Washington's lifelong need for control expressed itself through a mastery of nearly everyone and everything around him. Washington was not a good leader nor a good politician. He not only told lies, he lived them. In fact, no small part of his genius as a political leader was his ability to convince everyone, himself included, that he was no politician. Washington's capacity for self-deception did not end there. Painfully sensitive about his lack of formal education, he refused to write his war memoirs because his awful writing skills.
