The Wait

File under Procrastinate

Procrastination has such a negative connotation.  it's the label of the slackers, the lazy, the 'you'll never amount to much'.  But Procrastination could also be considered the 8th habit of highly effective people and in Frank Partnoy's book Wait he terms it Optimizing Delay.  In a review of the book in Psychology Today, columnist Matt Huston notes that Partnoy's strategy is predicated on the fact that "skilled decision makers take as much time as they reasonably can to prepare for their decision before they make it."  This strategy allows for the collection of as much information regarding the decision or task as possible, as well as allows clarity on whether the task is truly important or not.  Partnoy lends weight to the belief that being quick is not as important as being correct. 

Maybe knowing when the decision or task has to be completed is just as important as knowing the details.

Song of the Day
Recent events have actually led this to being a perfect song of the day. First of all, because of an ill-timed cold i was unable to go to the Virgin Free Music Festival today here in Maryland.  I was invited by an old college buddy of mine and unfortunately i am sitting here while he is having fun listening to Jack White.  But the band featured here is also in the lineup of the music festival.  Secondly, the song is actually a cover of one of my favorite Pixies songs, and coincidentally i heard it a week ago at a French wedding. There are few things more surreal than being in the French countryside at a wedding reception where you can communicate with only 5% of the guests and then you hear a Pixies' song as a part of the wedding playlist. In honor of trans-national musical taste, the Song of the Day is the Pixies' "Where is My Mind" covered by Trampled by Turtles.