Micromanagement is a side-effect of desperation, when someone starts to micromanage something, does so because he has very little understanding of what is causing the problems or what it will lead to that thing that is being micromanaged to prosper.
So instead to try to understand things he starts to control everything, in the hope that like that he is going to avoid most of the potential negative consequences. However because the cause of the issue is not being addressed, the issue is going to persist despise of all the efforts.
There are two ways to self sabotage yourself, one is to be to passive and don't take any action, and the other way is to obsess about something, you are doing way too much, to the point that you are hurting yourself and your goals.
Micromanagement is a form of obsession, the only benefit that I can think about is some temporary relief for your anxiety. Not even fixing it, but just getting some temporary relief.
Anxiety is the result of ignorance, where there is a lot of knowledge there isn't a lot of fear. And if there isn't fear there are also no micro-managers.
There is one very efficient way to stay ignorant, that is arrogance, there is no better way to maintain your anxiety other than assuming that you know everything and that you can do things better than everybody. How else are you going to constantly sabotage yourself from learning and finding out the truth.
Not only it is a horrible ineffective way to solve any problems, but it is also incredibly stressful and unpleasant for the person that is doing the micromanagement as well for the people that are being micromanaged.
This is the paradox of an addict, they don't learn from their own mistakes. It is not like the alcoholic doesn't get a hangover, he actually gets a hangover everyday of his life, but as soon as it is over he just goes back in too drinking, because drinking is how he copes with stress. And being hangover is stressful.
