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The "startup kind of person" is ambitious so I'm not sure how many people that applies to. An ambitious procrastinator...is that an oxymoron?
by tmh88j 15y ago
The "startup kind of person" is ambitious so I'm not sure how many people that applies to.
An ambitious procrastinator...is that an oxymoron?
- whateverer 15y agoMaybe you don't like being a procrastinator and you have yet to find a way to help it. Like people with ADHD, in which case it's likely that you got a bad hand dealt to you by genetics.
- timwiseman 15y agoNo...many ambitious people are also perfectionists, and perfectionists are often horrible procrastinators as they wait for things to line up perfectly or wait to refine it one more time before releasing, putting off the next phase over and over. Also, one very dangerous form of procrastination is doing real work...just work that is less important than what you should be doing. Paul Graham touches on this at http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html
- greenxc 15y agoAmbitious people can often times be the worst procrastinators because they can have an over inflated idea of what they can get done in a given day putting too much on their plate and thus leaving off many things for later days (often times the things they dread most which keep getting put off)...