The Impatient Procrastinator

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.
- Walt Whitman

It is possible to be an impatient procrastinator, a scared hero, a cruel lover, or even an insecure egotist. People are bundles of inconsistencies and it is a blunder to seize on one characteristic and think that explains the person. We often do so out of convenience or laziness and once the label is applied, further analysis is either slowed or stopped. We shy from evidence which challenges our conclusions.

[A story: I knew a person who was highly flexible on most issues but as unbending as steel on others. Think of how distorted a portrait I'd have if I had only dealt with the individual in one category and never experienced the other.]