“How to Procrastinate Like Leonardo da Vinci”:
If there is one conclusion to be drawn from the life of Leonardo, it is that procrastination reveals the things at which we are most gifted — the things we truly want to do. Procrastination is a calling away from something that we do against our desires toward something that we do for pleasure, in that joyful state of self-forgetful inspiration that we call genius.
From the February 20 Chronicle of Higher Education
Somewhat related: Elizabeth Gilbert’s excellent TED talk, “A different way to think about creative genius“
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