Is procrastination a vice or a virtue for creativity? In this fascinating TED-talk, organisational psychologist and professor Adam Grant presents his research on the link between procrastination and creative ideas.
Grant says in this talk that procrastination is a vice for productivity, but can be a virtue for creativity. In other words, moderate procrastination could actually boost your creativity and expand your thinking. "Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps", says Grant in the TED-talk.
This TED-talk reminds me of Bill Grossman's TED-talk, The Single Biggest Reason Why Startups Succeed, where he talks about the importance of timing and how that is a decisive factor for business success. That idea is aligned with Grant's argument that the first mover advantage is overrated and that it's much easier to improve upon an idea than to come up with something new from scratch.
What do you think? Do you believe that procrastionation could be good for your creativity?
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