It's easy to see other people's mistakes. I take his point that it's possible to overthink things and never get started. I tend to have that problem in fact. B

It's easy to see other people's mistakes. I take his point that it's possible to overthink things and never get started. I tend to have that problem in fact. But I've also seen work-work-work types expend way more effort than me on certain kinds of things. It's all very well to get started an then learn from your mistakes, but: - sometimes it's not obvious you've made a mistake once you're deep into the details - once you've invested a lot of time in a solution it's hard to convince yourself to bin it. (this is an especial problem in non-startups, because you have to convince your boss, too) - sometimes your back-brain just needs enough time to elapse for it to solve/understand the problem/subject. After the amount of work required to get it to pay attention, extra effort on the problem is a waste of time.