Taleb has a response about this in Antifragile: "A friend who writes books remarked that painters like painting but authors like “having written.” I suggested h

Taleb has a response about this in Antifragile: "A friend who writes books remarked that painters like painting but authors like “having written.” I suggested he stop writing, for his sake and the sake of his readers." The greater context of the above was dealing with procrastination: Since procrastination is a message from our natural willpower via low motivation, the cure is changing the environment, or one’s profession, by selecting one in which one does not have to fight one’s impulses. Not having written a book I don't know what the scars are about writing one that make the process very painful,I don't know if it's the writing itself, or the editing and getting feedback that makes it painful. But maybe procrastination does play a role, especially when one reflects on how much time they've wasted. So to stop procrastinating, change your environment or profession to one where you don't fight your natural impulses. Easier said than done in this world though.