This is a great article about procrastination, and how it focuses attention on our strengths, allowing ideas to germinate into genius:

“If Leonardo [Da Vinci] seemed endlessly distracted by his notebooks and experiments — instead of finishing the details of a painting he had already conceptualized — it was because he understood the fleeting quality of imagination: If you do not get an insight down on paper, and possibly develop it while your excitement lasts, then you are squandering the rarest and most unpredictable of your human capabilities, the very moments when one seems touched by the hand of God.”