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Is It Better to Be a Procrastinator or a Precrastinator

Precrastinators who rush in and do everything early are rated as less creative than people who procrastinate moderately. Grant’s experiment showed that procrastinators are 16% more creative.

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The surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant · June 25th, 2019

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How Can You Be an OriginalYou don’t have to be first, you just have to be different and better. It is okay to be slow to start but quick to finish because that can boost your activity.

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