Success Quote by Norton Juster

Procrastination gets redeemed here not as a moral failure but as a creative engine with a telltale fuel: resentment. Juster describes a familiar swivel-chair move - you abandon the task that has started to feel compulsory, and you attack a different one "with an absolute vengeance". That last phrase is the giveaway. The energy isn’t serene inspiration; it’s displaced resistance, ambition rerouted through spite. He’s naming the psychology of avoidance as a kind of informal project management: when obligation curdles into inertia, the mind hunts for a nearby target that can restore a sense of agency.

The intent is quietly practical. As an architect, Juster lived inside long timelines, constraint-heavy problem solving, and the slow grind of revision. When "enthusiasm" drops, you don’t wait for it to return; you redirect momentum. The subtext is that creativity isn’t a pure, linear calling - it’s scavenged from moods, irritations, and the need to feel effective. "You get bugged" is almost comically mild language for what can be a professional panic: the creeping suspicion you’re stuck. The workaround is to choose a different stuckness you can actually move.

There’s also an implicit argument against the romantic myth of the disciplined genius. Juster makes room for the messy, opportunistic reality: some of your best work is collateral damage from avoiding another responsibility. It’s not an excuse so much as a map of how real makers survive their own attention spans.