Does Adam Grant Say Procrastinating Is a Good Way to Get Work Done?

On TED Talks Daily, Adam Grant says procrastinating is a vice when the goal is productivity, and it can be a virtue when the goal is creativity. He points to Martin Luther King Jr. on the night before the March on Washington, still rewriting past 3 a.m., then scribbling and crossing out lines while he waited to speak. Eleven minutes into the speech, King left the script for the words "I have a dream," which were not in the text. Waiting so long to freeze the draft left more ideas available. Grant says original thinkers are quick to start and slow to finish. That is what he missed when the Warby Parker founders spent six months before moving.