Adam Grant - MBA Depot

If you want to be an original – the kind of nonconformist who champions new ideas and really drives creativity and change in the world – I thought you had to be an early bird, a first mover. But again, the evidence proved me wrong. Turns out that most originals are great procrastinators. The reason for this is pretty simple. […] What I noticed as I compared that against the originals that I studied […] was a lot of them were waiting for the right time. If they put off the start or completion of the task a little bit, they allowed themselves to access more diverse ideas. […] Because our first ideas are our most conventional, typically. You have to sort of weed out the familiar in order to get to the much more unusual and original.