Oddbean

Yeah. Sudden flurry of activity, like a flock of birds taking flight. Once I've made a decision, it has to be executed immediately or I feel trapped. Drives absolutely everyone around me nuts because it looks like inactivity and then they get hit by a train. Someone less high time-preference would be wealthier and more successful, on average, but have less potential to the upside because they'll eschew risk. And they'll feel less like they have true agency. It's a classic CEO trait, I suppose, and something typical for military officers or inventors: "moving boldly and swiftly" or "acting quickly on asymmetric information".

if ya gotta jump into the cold water no point in going slow once you've done this sort of thing a few times you learn that hesitation is death, always every time you get flutters as you leap you fall

And then, if it works out, they tell you that you "got lucky". No, I just have bigger balls than you do and I'm more inquisitive than you are. You could have made the same choice, but you didn't. The End.