Perfectionists（完美主义者） can waste just as much time as procrastinators（拖拉者） . Thomas R. Williams, former chairman of Wachovia Corporation, discovered that many young people in banking¹ don't know when to stop researching a project and start wrapping it up. Those trainees² could have learned something from engineers, who are taught to produce the best possible solution by a certain date. Even if a design is not perfect, they've done the best they could under deadline.

Whenever you streamline³ a task or eliminate a hassle, you don't just save time. You make your life more pleasant. "Dost thou love life?" Benjamin Franklin once said. "Then do not squander⁴ time, for that's the stuff life is made of."