“David (Getting Things Done) Allan said your procrastination (ahem, one’s procrastination) is often directly proportional to how close the task is to your life’s purpose — or something like that. I agree. Sad but true. ”

Or, like this …

“It is difficult to improve on Olly Newland’s evaluation from The Day the Bubble Bursts:

It would be easy to spend several lifetimes ‘analysing’, in a rigorous statistical fashion, the factors that drive the Economic or Property Clock. Pointy-heads can and do bury themselves in statistics, rows of data, multicoloured charts and graphs, finally emerging triumphant at having weighed all the macro-economic factors (interest rates, money supply, immigration, etc) and coming up with a theory to ‘explain’ what happens as the cycle moves around the clock. (But always after the fact. With very few exceptions, their self-serving ‘predictions’ aren’t worth a tinker’s cuss.)
But the real driver is emotion or ‘market sentiment’. …

Painless.

Intertextual mixing? Pinching!! – P

The job of incorporating someone else’s writing into your own work must be more time consuming than just writing out what you want to say in the first place. Basically, you have to go to the trouble of forcing a slant in your own writing that reflects the person you are trying to rip off. That seems a lot harder than just being yourself.