I have a love/hate relationship with books that capitalize on a counterintuitive notion, and that includes Malcolm Gladwell, mentioned in the article. While they're good reminders that many societal preconceptions are incorrect, too often they just replace one misconception with another.
Procrastination is not good. Procrastination is not bad. It's a question of when and why. Perhaps intentional procrastination on some tasks and plans is good, but when you procrastinate on everything, things don't magically become better and you don't get any special insight: you just stop doing what you wanted to do, and over time you end up lagging behind people who don't share your love for procrastination.
Not all advice is good for all people. For entrepreneurs, procrastination is a terrible suggestion. In a small business, if you don't go after opportunities, you may forget about them; they won't come for you. Of course, a good entrepreneur should distinguish between a worthwhile endeavor and a dead end... but someone who adopts procrastination as a principle will leave the trouble of distinguishing between work that's worth doing and work that isn't for tomorrow.
A bad idea doesn't become better when you decide to sit on it and only implement it a few months later. A better advice would be: stop having bad ideas, and shoot dead a bad idea when you see one.
This is hard work, and hard work doesn't get done when you procrastinate.
Procrastination is not good. Procrastination is not bad. It's a question of when and why. Perhaps intentional procrastination on some tasks and plans is good, but when you procrastinate on everything, things don't magically become better and you don't get any special insight: you just stop doing what you wanted to do, and over time you end up lagging behind people who don't share your love for procrastination.
Not all advice is good for all people. For entrepreneurs, procrastination is a terrible suggestion. In a small business, if you don't go after opportunities, you may forget about them; they won't come for you. Of course, a good entrepreneur should distinguish between a worthwhile endeavor and a dead end... but someone who adopts procrastination as a principle will leave the trouble of distinguishing between work that's worth doing and work that isn't for tomorrow.
A bad idea doesn't become better when you decide to sit on it and only implement it a few months later. A better advice would be: stop having bad ideas, and shoot dead a bad idea when you see one. This is hard work, and hard work doesn't get done when you procrastinate.