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by D_Alex 5028 days ago
From http://lesswrong.com/lw/tz/my_best_and_worst_mistake/, a quote that I spent a long time thinking about:

"As a general idea, high level intellectual exploration should consume substantially more time than goal-directed action, but there are few social encouragements to behave in this manner so the only people who do so are essentially those who are addicted to such intellectual exploration and have no propensity or willingness to take action at all."