Will Perry
Will Perry
way flaws being-pretty
While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive.
bars tasks common
The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to approach it. As the deadline approaches, they must set the bar lower.
assessment perfection tasks
Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.
smart cookies
Voltaire was a smart cookie.
book school boys
The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is there any harm in skipping all that, in letting the school boy learn multiplication sums, and in starting his more abstract reasoning at a more advanced point. Where would be the harm in letting the boy assume the truth of many propositions of the first four books of Euclid, letting him assume their truth partly by faith, partly by trial?
motivational comfort doe
Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.
sports years shade
I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.
needs remember
I don't need to be reminded that I was on 'Friends.' I remember - some of it, anyway.
hair scary facts
I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing.
couple school kids
I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them.
trying gone whole-life
If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.
player tennis ottawa
I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.
hockey law canada
I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.
trouble intimacy wells
I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.